The World Is Neither Flat nor Round: The Power of Research Paradigms - Gloria Ladson

Gloria Ladson-Billings will highlight the experiences and challenges of scholars of color who approach education from diverse and alternative perspectives. She is the author of Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education and the Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education and a 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, ethnic, and socioeconomic settings. She also authored 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.

7:30 p.m. reception following the lecture in the Multicultural Student Center, Memorial Union.