School of Education Events

Location

Please join us Thursday, November 10th, from 6:30-7:30 PM when Dr. Paul Gorski visits the School of Education (Matoaka Woods) to deliver the talk:

Becoming a Threat to Inequity: Why Educators Need Equity Literacy More Than We Need Cultural Competence

?Culture? is generally considered one of the most underdeveloped concepts in the education and social science scholarship. Despite its vagueness, it has become the center of popular discourses on diversity and education. In this talk, Gorski will discuss how the ?culture? fetish leads us away from the more important goal of equity. He offers a new framework, equity literacy, designed to ensure that our diversity efforts are driven first and foremost by a commitment to equity.

Please RSVP to this event here: http://forms.wm.edu/28912

On Friday, November 11th from 10-11AM, Dr. Gorski will also meet with SOE faculty for an informal discussion and Q&A session. Please RSVP http://forms.wm.edu/28906  if you are interested in attending this smaller session.

About Paul Gorski
Paul C. Gorski is an activist, author, and educator focusing on a wide range of social justice and human rights issues. His primary interests include poverty and economic justice, racial justice, queer justice, and animal rights. He is the founder of EdChange, has served two terms on the board of directors of the International Association for Intercultural Education. He has written more than 50 articles and written, co-written, or co-edited 10 books including Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap; Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education (with Seema Pothini), and Voices for Diversity and Social Justice (with Julie Landsman and Rosanna Salcedo). At Mason, Paul coordinates SIS's Social Justice Minor and Social Justice and Human Rights concentration as well as a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies concentration in Social Justice and Human Rights.

Contact

Dr. Meredith Kier, mwkier@wm.edu