Learning with Migrant Youth: Mirrors and Manifestos
Speaker:
Leigh Patel
12 Oct 2015
5:30 PM
1210 LeBaron
Leigh Patel is a sociologist, writer, and educator based at Boston College. She is the author of the award-winning Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education, and the Politics of Inclusion. Her work addresses the ways education acts as a site of social reproduction and a constant site of potential transformation. This talk will address how schools and societies use social categories to organize people and how some youth are agitating those categories. In addition to her academic work, Leigh Patel is a national board member of the Education for Liberation network.
Prior to working in the academy, (Lisa) Leigh Patel was a journalist, a teacher, and a state-level policymaker. Across all of these experiences, her focus has been on the ways that education structures opportunities in society, and her daily work has been with youth who are marginalized through those structures.
Professor Patel, also published under Lisa Patel Stevens, is the author of the forthcoming [i]Decolonizing Educational Research: From Ownership to Answerability[/i], co-author of [i]Critical Literacy: Context, Research, and Praxis in the K-12 Classroom[/i], and co-editor of [i]ReConstructing the Adolescent: Sign, Symbol and Body[/i]. Her writing has also been featured in media outlets including [i]The Feminist Wire[/i], Racialicious.com and HuffPost Live.