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Opening Keynote Speaker
DR. ANTONIA DARDER is an internationally recognized
scholar, artist, poet, activist, and public intellectual. A
radical educator in the critical pedagogy tradition, her
work has focused on comparative studies of racism, class,
gender, and society. Her teaching examines cultural and
global issues in education with an emphasis on identity,
language, and popular culture, as well as the philosophical
foundations of critical pedagogy, Latino and Latina studies,
and social justice theory. She holds the Leavey Presidential
Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership in the School
of Education at Loyola Marymount University. She also is
Professor Emerita of Educational Policy, Organization, and
Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Topic:
Rewriting the world: Literacy, inequality, and the brain
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Keynote Speaker
Sponsored by
ALAN LAWRENCE SITOMER
is a celebrated author of children's and young adult
fiction, and California's 2007 Teacher of the Year.
Contacts:
Jesse P. Turner/Jim
Johnston
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