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Teaching to Change the World
A Lecture/Discussion with Robin D. G. Kelley
-- part of The Issues in Urban Education Lecture Series
October 28, 2004
5:30-7:00 P.M.
Held Auditorium, Barnard Hall, Barnard College
Reception to follow.
 Robin D. G. Kelley will talk about the critical role that teachers play in helping young people to be critical and creative agents in democratic society. Drawing on historical examples from the African American past, Dr. Kelley will illustrate the ways in which public schools matter for promoting visions of freedom and the capacity to act in each new generation.
Robin D.G. Kelley, Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at Columbia is author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002); Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990); Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class (1994); Into the Fire: African Americans since 1970 (1996); and Yo Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban American (1997), which was selected one of the top ten books of 1998 by the Village Voice. He is also co-editor (with Earl Lewis) of To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (2000), which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and a History Book Club selection. Currently he is completing a biography of pianist/composer Thelonius Monk.
The Issues in Urban Education Lecture Series provides a lively forum for examining pressing issues facing urban schools and for identifying promising practices to creatively and successfully address these issues. The series is sponsored through the collaborative efforts of Barnard College, Teachers College, and Columbia University including:
- Barnard College Education Program
- Teachers College Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Elementary Pre-Service Education Program
- Columbia University Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Additional support is provided by Teachers College Press.
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