Profession Based Hierarchies as Barriers for Genuine Learning Processes

Under embargo until: 2021-06-26This chapter describes how profession based hierarchies (stratified social orders between professions) may appear in a teaching context of interprofessionality involving a variety of health professions presenting challenges to learning and offers suggestions on how these challenges can be overcome.acceptedVersio

Skills and Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator

In this article the author reflects on her practice as a teacher and as a teacher of teachers. Arguing from her perspective as a product of the skills-oriented approach to writing and as a teacher of the process-oriented approach to writing, she describes the estrangement many minority teachers feel from the progressive movement. Her conclusions advocate a fusion of the two approaches and point to a need for writing-process movement leaders to develop a vocabulary which will allow educators who have differing perspectives to participate in the dialogue.</jats:p

Keynote Speaker - Lisa Delpit

Currently the Felton G. Clark Distinguished Professor of Education at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lisa D. Delpit is the former Executive Director/Eminent Scholar for the Center for Urban Education & Innovation at Florida International University, Miami. She is also the former holder of the Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban Educational Excellence at Georgia State University, Atlanta. Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she is a nationally and internationally-known speaker and writer whose work focuses on the education of children of color and the perspectives, aspirations, and pedagogy of teachers of color. Delpit’s work on school-community relations and cross-cultural communication contributed to her receiving a MacArthur “Genius” Award in 1990. Dr. Delpit describes her strongest focus as “...finding ways and means to best educate marginalized students, particularly African-American, and other students of color.” She uses her training in ethnographic research to spark dialogues between educators on issues that impact students poorly served by our educational system. Dr. Delpit is particularly interested in teaching and learning in multicultural societies, having spent time studying these issues in Alaska, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and in various urban and rural sites in the continental U.S. She received a B.S. degree from Antioch College and an M.Ed. and Ed.D. from Harvard. Her background is in elementary education with an emphasis on language and literacy development. Dr. Delpit’s most recent book, published in 2012, “Multiplication is for White People”: Raising Standards for Other People’s Children explores strategies to increase expectations and academic achievement for marginalized children. Library Journal named it one of the 20 best-selling education books of 2013, and the American School Board Journal selected it as one of eight “notable books” for 2012. A previous book, Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, has sold well over a quarter of a million copies and received the American Educational Studies Association’s “Book Critic Award” and Choice Magazine’s Eighth Annual Outstanding Academic Book Award, and was named “A Great Book” by Teacher Magazin

The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children

Lisa Delpit uses the debate over process-oriented versus skills-oriented writing instruction as the starting-off point to examine the "culture of power" that exists in society in general and in the educational environment in particular. She analyzes five complex rules of power that explicitly and implicitly influence the debate over meeting the educational needs of Black and poor students on all levels. Delpit concludes that teachers must teach all students the explicit and implicit rules of power as a first step toward a more just society. This article is an edited version of a speech presented at the Ninth Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 5-6, 1988.</jats:p

Other peoples children : culture conflict in the clasroom/ Delpit

xvii, 206 p.; 21 cm