The Race, Education and Democracy Lecture and Book Series, a collaborative effort of Simmons College and Beacon Press, will bring annually to Boston a prominent scholar to deliver four to five public lectures on the topic of Race, Education and Democracy. These lectures will form the basis for a book to be published by Beacon Press. 

This Lecture and Book Series aims to reestablish in the public imagination the historic connection between public education and the possibility of a robust democracy, against the backdrop of the issue of race in America.

The Series is aimed at a broad audience and will present educational issues in all their complexities, in readily accessible language.  The Series proceeds on the assumption that public education is at the center of American public life and that discussions about critical educational issues need to occur in the public domain and engage Americans from many different backgrounds in thoughtful and complicated conversations.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ernest Morrell will deliver the 2011 Race, Education and Democracy Lectures. The overarching theme of his lectures is Powerful Teaching: Towards a Pedagogy for the Global City.

Professor Morrell is Associate Professor in the Urban School Division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at University of California at Los Angeles. 

His recent publications include, Critical Literacy and Urban Youth: Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation, Routledge Press, 2008; The Art of Critical Pedagogy: Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools, with Duncan-Andrade, Peter Lang, 2008 and Linking Literacy and Popular Culture: Making Connections for Lifelong Learning, Christopher-Gordon, 2004.

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Theresa Perry
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