For Immediate Release: October 16, 2015
Contact: Tony Pals, AERA [email protected] office: (202) 238-3235 cell: (202) 288-9333
Victoria Oms, AERA [email protected] office: (202) 238-3233
** MEDIA ADVISORY **
Teresa McCarty, Leading Scholar on Indigenous Education to Give 12th Annual Brown Lecture on October 22 in Washington, D.C.
WHAT The 12th Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research, held by the American Educational Research Association. The title of this year’s lecture is “So That Any Child May Succeed -- Indigenous Pathways toward Justice and the Promise of Brown.”
Dr. McCarty will examine hard-fought pathways toward educational justice forged by Indigenous educators, parents, leaders, and allies; the larger colonial project in which those efforts are embedded; and the ways in which Indigenous initiatives are braided with those of others. She will conclude with ongoing challenges in fulfilling the promise of Brown and what can be learned from diverse models of contemporary Indigenous education practice. The Brown Lecture illuminates the important role of research in advancing understanding of equality and equity in education. Now in its 12th year, the Brown Lecture was inaugurated by AERA in 2004 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court took scientific research into account in issuing its landmark ruling. Each year a distinguished scholar notable for producing significant research related to equality in education is invited to give this public lecture in Washington, D.C. WHO Teresa L. McCarty is a world-renowned scholar on Indigenous language planning, policy, education, and revitalization. She is a professor of education and anthropology at the University of California–Los Angeles and professor emerita at Arizona State University. McCarty’s research and teaching focuses on language education policy, indigenous/language minority education, youth language ideologies and practices, critical literacy studies, and ethnographic studies of education. Her book, with K. Tsianina Lomawaima, “To Remain an Indian”: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education, won the AERA Division G (Curriculum Studies) outstanding book award in 2007. Read more WHEN Thursday, October 22, 2015, at 6 p.m. EDT Reception to follow WHERE Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center Amphitheater, Concourse Level 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. (Federal Building: photo ID required to enter) TO RSVP To RSVP to attend the lecture or view the livestream, visit www.aera.net/brownlecture or email [email protected]. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit www.aera.net/brownlecture. ABOUT AERA: The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is the largest national professional organization devoted to the scientific study of education. Founded in 1916, AERA advances knowledge about education, encourages scholarly inquiry related to education, and promotes the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.