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Dr. Stovall: ISJ Keynote – Audience Q&A
Dr. Stovall is now taking audience Q&A: Q: Where do we find the balance between reality and activism? Dr. Stovall says he prefers the term harmony vs balance. Strive for clarity in what you do. Get support from your network, “pull from the universe of people that are doing the work you want to do.” …
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Concluding Remarks from Stovall
Stovall acknowledges that social justice is a “committed journey to get in trouble.” He encourages us as social justice advocates “the people that you need will show up if you continue to do the work.” Key point: “part of this work is to build a community of praxis that is willing to support you and tell…
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Education Today – Dr. Stovall’s Keynote at KU
Dr. Stovall offers a lot on the topic of injustice, which has many layers. How does gentrification affect people of color? In Chicago, there are many schools in which 50% of the kids have to travel from far away to attend school because their families can no longer afford to live in the neighborhood where they once…
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Dr. Stovall at KU – more on his keynote at Inclusion and Social Justice
What else does Dr. Stovall have to say? We are experiencing a moment in the US where there is an attack on education. There are multiple policy attempts to eliminate teacher education programs. He uses the term of “educational sharecropping” – in exchange for education, you must give up your culture, even your soul… He gives…
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MORE from Dr. Stovall – keynote at Inclusion and Social Justice
The theme of today’s conference is innovation. Dr. Stovall challenges this concept – innovation for what? Is it in the interest of neoliberal capitalism OR the greater common good? I appreciate how Dr. Stovall complicates a lot of what many of us take for granted in terms of higher education. “The moment you think of education as your place…
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Dr. Stovall – keynote at Inclusion and Social Justice, cont’d.
Dr. Stovall continues, when we think about our work and our research, let’s ask ourselves WHY, FOR WHAT and “what does this mean for the people I care about?” Let’s not let the “normalcy of white supremacy” define our work. We need to ask what has been taken from certain groups in the past? What does this…
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Live-blogging from KU – Dr. Stovall!
Dr. Stovall says “we have to recreate and rethink the project of the university…justice should never be determined by the university!” He asks us “what responsibility do we have as educators to address injustice in our work?!” Furthermore, how do we dismantle deficit ideologies such as “at-risk” or “disadvantaged” He says that “interruption of good” –…
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Keynote: Dr Stovall – critical race theory and re-theorizing the university
Dr. David Stovall, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago is NOW presenting the keynote address “The Necessity of Community Responsibility in Research: Ending the Colonial Project of the University through the Politics of Accountability.” Dr. Stovall’s research interests include critical Race Theory, educational policy analysis, sociology, urban…
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Inclusion & Social Justice Conference!
I will be live-blogging from the University of Kansas Inclusion & Social Justice Conference today! More information on the conference can be found here: http://specialedu.ku.edu/resources/isj/research-conference
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Welcome, 2018 HASTAC Steering Committee members!
HASTAC is delighted to welcome our newest Steering Committee members: Jennifer Byron, Arizona State University (HASTAC Scholars Representative) Anita Say Chan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Julian Chambliss, Rollins College Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University The Colored Conventions Project Team, represented by Jim Casey and Gabrielle Foreman, University of Delaware T.L. Cowan, University of Toronto Alex Gil, Columbia…