Ezekiel Dixon-Román: Haunting & Learning Analytics
In this talk, titled “Haunting & Learning Analytics”, Dr. Dixon-Román will discuss some of the interventions he is making in his current book, Haunting Algorithms. In this book, he is …
Judith Kafka: The Twisted Histories of U.S. Schools and Prisons
Professor Kafka will examine the historic relationship between schools and prisons in the United States, not as a “pipeline” from one to the other, but as interdependent institutions. Using two …
Sandy Grande: Hospicing the University
Dr. Sandy Grande will speak from her work on Indigenous Elders and aging, and graft it on to the current moment in higher education- to consider the post-pandemic future of …
Alisha Butler
Assistant Professor, Education Studies “Illuminating patterns of inequality is only the first step; place inquiry and spatial methods have the potential to help education researchers generate explanations for why these …
Simply because people refuse to see me: Black Lives Matter and equity in education. A historical perspective
In this presentation, Professor Yohuru Williams will connect the Black Lives Matter movement to historical racial justice struggles with special attention to disproportionality in education.
Indira Karamcheti
Associate Professor of American Studies
Joseph Nelson: Reimagining black boyhood: Strategies for relational learning at school
This talk challenges how U.S. schools have become settings more concerned with the quarantine and control of Black boys’ bodies, rather than their learning and development. Now arguably more than …
EDST 230: Schools in Society
What role have schools played in the evolution of American Society? What role could/should they play, going forward? This course takes a topical approach to these questions. We will explore …
