Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Fifth Annual Multicultural Conference to focus on transformative curriculum
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Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 Participants in the conference will investigate the factors that both enhance and inhibit the development of transformative curriculum. Issues of innovation surround multicultural education. Participants will be encouraged to consider how the school curriculum must address questions of equity, justice, recognition, power, and voice as crucial parts in the dialogue regarding the politics of exclusion. For schools, these questions often involve the development (or in many cases the purchase) of curriculum. Community development and democratic education depend upon the space - both private and public - through which transformative experiences can emerge. The keynote speakers are Dr. Sherry Marx, author of Revealing the Invisible: Confronting Passive Racism in Teacher Education, and Alexandra Zapruder, author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust. In her book, Marx asserts that white teacher education students must recognize their own positions of privilege and work actively to create anti-racist teaching techniques and learning environments for children of color and children learning English as a second language. Marx is an assistant professor of education at Utah State University. Zapruder is a Holocaust Teachers Fellow for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with a passion for sharing the voices of youth and the impact of these horrifying and historic events from the perspective of adolescents who lived through it. Zapruder's presentation will allow teachers to reflect upon the importance of hearing these testimonies and encourage today's teenagers to consider their own personal responses to genocide. The conference coincides with Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit currently on display in Rice Library. The exhibit is sponsored by the Bower-Surheinrich College of Education and Human Services, Temple Adath B'Nai Israel, the Lilly Endowment, Inc., and the Community of Scholars Fund. The conference is hosted by the USI Bower-Surheinrich College of Education and Human Services and sponsored by the Indiana Humanities Council, Indiana Campus Compact, USI Major as Home Departmental Grant, Bower-Suhrheinrich Faculty Enhancement Award, Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation, Hospitality and Outreach for Latin Americans (HOLA). All USI faculty and staff are invited to attend the conference. Faculty in the Bower-Surheinrich College of Education and Human Services may attend for free. The student fee of $25 by February 19, $30 thereafter, is being offered to all other USI employees. The general public pays $50 by February 19 and $60 after. For more information or to register, call 812/464-1989 or 800/467-8600. |
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