Prominent Scholars Give 2012 Lectures
Prominent Scholars Give 2012 Lectures
 
April 2, 2012
Print

Jo-ann Archibald and William T. Trent will give the two most prominent of the Annual Meeting lectures in Vancouver this year. Archibald will present the AERA Distinguished Lecture, “Hands Back, Hands Forward: Transforming Indigenous Education,” on Saturday, April 14, at 10:35 a.m. At 2:15 the same day, Trent will deliver the Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: “Resegregating American Education: The Patterns, Old Issues, New Twists.”

Archibald is associate dean for indigenous education and professor of education studies at the University of British Columbia. She cochaired the group that prepared the Accord on Indigenous Education, which was signed by the Association of Canadian Deans of Education (ACDE) to ensure a focus on indigenous culture in K–12 education in Canada.

Trent is a professor of education policy, organization, and leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is noted for his commitment to the improvement of educational practice in American primary and secondary schools, his research on equity in education, and his repeated service as an expert.

Catherine Snow, recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, will deliver her lecture, “The Value of Practitioner-Research Partnerships: Literacy Improvement as a Demonstration Case,” on Monday, April 16, at 12:25 p.m. Snow, 2000–2001 AERA president, is Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, 2012 recipient of the Social Justice in Education Award, whose lecture is titled, “The Role of Critical Race Theory in the Struggle for Social Justice,” will speak on Friday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. Solorzano is professor of social science and comparative education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.  

Jerry D. Weast, recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Public Service Award, will deliver his lecture, “Gateways to Excellence, Pathways to Equity,” on Sunday, April 15, at 10:35 a.m. Weast has been recognized as an exceptional school system leader, in particular as superintendent of the Montgomery County Public Schools in the state of Maryland.

Also prominent on the Annual Meeting Program this year are two highly accomplished early-career scholars: Guofang Li and Cynthia E. Coburn, respectively winners of the 2010 and 2011 AERA Early Career Awards.

On Saturday, April 14, at 8:15 a.m., Li, an associate professor in the College of Education at Michigan State University, will present “Toward a Culture Pedagogy: Rethinking Literacy, Power, and ‘Minority.’” On Monday, April 16, at 8:15 a.m., Coburn, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education, will present her address, “Pathways Between Policy and Practice: The Role of Social Networks and Social Interaction.”

All seven lectures will be given in the Vancouver Convention Centre. Other invited presidential lecturers speaking at the 2012 meeting include Claude Steele (Stanford University), M.K. Asante (Morgan State University), Peggy McIntosh (Wellesley College), Nancy Cantor (Syracuse University), and Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid (INTI-UC Laureate International Universities).