Lecture: Gloria Ladson-Billings, Hilton Chair in Human Sciences

Date/Time:	Thursday, 12 Feb 2009 at 6:00 pm
Location:	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
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"The World Is Neither Flat nor Round: The Power of Research Paradigms," Gloria Ladson-Billings, ISU Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair in Human Sciences. She will address issues of diversity education, particularly the challenges that scholars of color face as they attempt to represent diverse and alternative perspectives in education. A reception follows at 7:30 p.m. in the MU Multicultural Center.

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Gloria Ladson-Billings is the author of Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education and the Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She helped develop Teach for Diversity, a graduate program for teachers who want to teach in diverse racial, ethic, and socioeconomic settings. She is the author of The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, which profiles eight outstanding teachers who differ in personal style but approach teaching in a way that affirms cultural identity.

The 2009 Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair in Human Sciences.