The Landscape of Urban Education
The School of Education is pleased to present the following lectures in its series, The Landscape of Urban Education, this fall 2009. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Ernest Morrell
October 1
4 p.m., Watson Theater
The Art of Critical Pedagogy: The Promise of Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools
The Lynn D. and John L. Kreischer TELL Scholars Lecture
Ernest Morrell is associate professor of urban education and cultural studies at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, where he is also associate director of youth research at the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access. In his research, Morrell examines the possible intersections between indigenous urban adolescent literacies and the literacies of dominant institutions such as schools. Particularly, he is interested in the discourse of popular culture; adolescent literacy practices in nonschool settings; critical literacy education; and urban teacher development. In addition to academic books he has authored, including The Art of Critical Pedagogy: The Possibilities of Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools (Peter Lang, 2008), Morrell has written poems, plays, essays, and novels. In his spare time, he runs a media production company called Desert Highway.
Ira Glass
November 17
7:30 p.m., Hendricks Chapel
This American Life
Sponsored in cooperation with the Syracuse Symposium in the College of Arts and Sciences and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Ira Glass's This American Life premiered on Chicago's public radio station WBEZ in late 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by more than 1.7 million listeners. Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio’s network headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1978, at age 19. Over the years, he worked on nearly every NPR network news program and held virtually every production job. Under Glass’s editorial direction, This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including the Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards. In 2001, Time magazine named Glass "Best Radio Host in America." The show has inspired a comic book, three greatest-hits compilations, a paint-by numbers set, a "radio decoder" toy, and a DVD, which was created with caroonist Chris Ware. In March 2007, the television adaptation of This American Life premiered on Showtime to great critical acclaim and in 2008 won two Emmy awards.
