August Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series Conversation with Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings
The North Carolina Central University School of Education's Higher Education Administration Graduate Program invites you to the August 2024 Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series conversation with Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings.
Dr. Ladson-Billings is a world-renowned scholar, pedagogical theorist, and teacher educator best known for coining culturally relevant pedagogy and for bringing critical race theory to the field of education. She is the former Keller Family Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was the 2005–2006 president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and is the past president of the National Academy of Education. The conversation is scheduled for Tuesday, August 22, 2023, from 12 to 1 p.m. via Zoom.
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings is a Fellow of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Hagler Institute of Texas A&M University. Ladson-Billings’ research examines the pedagogical practices of teachers who are successful with African American students. She also investigates critical race theory applications to education.
She is the author of the critically acclaimed books "The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children" and "Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms," as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is the former editor of the American Educational Research Journal and a member of several editorial boards.
Her work has won numerous scholarly awards, including the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Palmer O. Johnson outstanding research award. During the 2003–2004 academic year, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In the fall of 2004, she received the George and Louise Spindler Award from the Council on Anthropology and Education for significant and ongoing contributions to the field of educational anthropology.
She holds honorary degrees from Umeå University (Umeå Sweden), University of Massachusetts-Lowell, the University of Alicante (Alicante, Spain), the Erickson Institute (Chicago), and Morgan State University (Baltimore). She is a 2018 recipient of the AERA Distinguished Research Award, and she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2018.
The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Tryan L. McMickens, associate professor of Higher Education and program director of the Higher Education Administration Program at North Carolina Central University. This conversation will be co-sponsored by the Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational Foundation, Inc.
Meeting ID: 846 8148 6321
Passcode: NCCU2023