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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) 6th Annual International Conference

May 18-19, 2006
 
Sponsored by the Educational Development Centre
City University London
 
In association with the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (USA), the International Society for SoTL, and the Higher Education Academy (UK), providing opportunities to dialogue with all those committed to scholarly work on teaching and learning from North America, Europe and Australasia.

At this conference, Professor Darder is featured plenary panelist for the session entitled: "Practising SoTL: Challenges for SoTL in culturally diverse environments"

Click here for a link to SoTL's program Web site

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5th Annual California Association of Freirean Educators

April 21, 2006 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Location:  UCLA Campus, Specific Room TBA (either)

Moore Hall located at the core-south part of UCLA campus.
457 Portola Plaza. Los Angeles, CA 90095

Keynote Speech Topic:

Unfettered Bodies: A Pedagogy for a New Struggle

Paulo Freire often spoke about knowing with his entire body. In this same spirit, this presentation explores critical dimensions of a pedagogy of the body, anchored in an ethical and moral imperative that seeks to contend forthrightly with the oppressive and exclusionary forces embedded in the structures and practices of higher education. Moreover, this speaks to a critical political project, anchored in the explicit intent of reinvigorating an emancipatory struggle, in our daily lives as educators, cultural workers and political activists.

For more information on this conference visit:
http://paulofreireinstitute.org/Conferences/Cafe/Cafe-2006/Homepage.html

To register for the conference visit:
http://paulofreireinstitute.org/Conferences/Cafe/Cafe-2006/Registration.html

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Educational Reform and Social Justice Issues: A Grassroots [Re]Examination of Race, Class, and Society

Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
University Union
Sacramento State University Sacramento, CA

The 12th Annual Multicultural Education Conference - Keynote Speaker, Antonia Darder

Social justice issues such as bilingual education, language minority rights, women's issues, and immigrants’ rights are currently being attacked in the public arena. In California K-12 students and teachers are significantly being disengaged in dialogue on education reform. In today’s current state and national political era, a grassroots [re]examination of race, class and social educational issues are even more crucial than ever.

This year’s Multicultural Education Conference will examine critical educational and social issues in an effort to organize grassroots efforts that will empower the marginalized oppressed peoples of our society. In her keynote address, Dr. Antonia Darder will inspire and reenergize educators and radical teachers’ organizations to become activists as they commit to a [re]newed educational vision of schooling that is intimately linked to social justice, human rights, and economic democracy.

For more information visit:
http://edweb.csus.edu/departments/bmed/multi_conf/2006/

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Jurys Inn, Birmingham, UK

November 23-25, 2005

C-SAP is delighted to announce that a one-hour keynote at C-SAP’s 2005 Conference will be delivered by Prof Antonia Darder from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/hottopic/ebulletins/ebulletins.htm?id=78

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Looking Back at Lau vs. Nichols:
Issues of Language and Cultural Diversity in Urban Schools

November 2, 2005

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
UWM Union, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI

This year's Urban Forum will address the issues of language and cultural diversity and the challenges facing Hispanic/Latino/a, Hmong, and Native American students in urban schools. Discussion and presentations will center around the implications of the Lau vs. Nichols 1974 Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the San Francisco school system violated the Civil Rights Act by denying non-English-speaking students a meaningful opportunity to participate in public education.

The Urban Forum provides adult educators, administrators, community educators, counselors, policymakers, psychologists, teachers and students with the opportunity to learn more about how urban social, political and economic issues impact education.

This year's keynote speaker is Antonia Darder, Ph.D., professor of educational studies and Latino/a studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Darder is the author of a number of books on cultural and language issues in education and other social issues, is a former scholar of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute and political activist. Over the years, she has been active in a variety of Latino/Chicano grassroots efforts tied to educational rights, worker's rights, bilingual education, women's issues and immigrant rights.

http://www.soe.uwm.edu/pages/welcome/Urban_Forum

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"What's Love Got to Do with It?"

A Benefit for the Southern California Library Join invited guests in a dialogue about the place of love in social justice work as we move toward reclaiming love in our language, our history, our dancing, our work and our lives.

February 18, 2005, 7 to 9pm
SAJE - 152 W. 32nd. St., LA

http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebSite/events/love05/index.html

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"Latinos and School Desegregation 75 Years after the Lemon Grove Incident"

April 26, 2005, 4:30 pm

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

http://english.unc.edu/latina-o/speakers.html