Lipman will present “Urban Education and Urban Housing: Moralizing the Poor, Building the Neoliberal City, Displacing African Americans.” A professor of policy studies and director of the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Lipman’s research focuses on race and class inequalities in schools, globalization and urban development and the political economy and cultural politics of race in urban education. Lipman authored “High Stakes Education; Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform and Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring,” and she is a founding member of Chicago-area Teachers for Social Justice.
The second lecture will be presented by L. Janelle Dance on Thursday, March 6 at 5 p.m. in the Educational Resources Laboratory in Pawley Hall. Dance will present “’Fear of the Dark’: Mainstream Views of Ethnic Minority Students in Sweden and the United States.” Dance is associate professor of sociology and co-coordinator of the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Her research interests include the sociology of urban education, youth cultures, race and ethnic relations and ethnographic methods. Dance’s recent research examines national belonging and ethic identity among ethnic minority teenagers in Sweden. She is the author of “Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling,” which explores the incongruity between the identity expectations of mainstream schooling and the needs of many black youth to enact “hard” identities that elicit respect and safety.
Donaldo Macedo, professor of English and distinguished professor of liberal arts and education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, will presents the third lecture in the series on Thursday, April 17 at 5 p.m. in the Educational Resources Laboratory in Pawley Hall. His lecture is titled “Daring to Dream Toward a Pedagogy of the Unfinished.” Macedo has published extensively in the areas of linguistics, critical literacy and bilingual and multicultural education. His publications include “Literacy: Reading the Word and the World” with Paulo Freire, “Literacies of Power: What Americans are Not Allowed to Know,” “Dancing with Bigotry” with Lilia Bartolome, “Critical Education in the New Information Age” with Freire, Henry Grioux and Paul Willis, and “Chomsky on Miseducation” with Noam Chomsky.
For more information or to RSVP for the lectures, contact Tom Pedroni, assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Development and Education Studies, at pedroni@oakland.edu.