education

Streetwise for Book Smarts: Community Organizing, and Education Reform

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While these education organizing groups had similar goals and worked in the same political context, they frequently employed divergent political strategies in their campaigns. My talk will draw upon 18 months of ethnographic research I conducted with four education organizing groups in the South Bronx. It will focus on the ways in which the groups’ organizational toolkits made a difference, and how grassroots organizations can work more effectively towards substantive social change.

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Strengthening Education: Empowering Asian American Studies

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Hunter College, CUNY Coalition for the Revitalization of Asian American Studies at Hunter College Presents Strengthening Education: Empowering Asian American Studies Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008     Time: 1PM to 5PM Place: Hunter College, CUNY 695 Park Avenue, Manhattan Lang Recital Hall, Hunter North 424 Conference Program Students of the Coalition for the Revitalization of Asian … Read more

Transforming China’s Post-Secondary Education in the Context of Rapid Economic and Social Changes

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The recent convergence of several economic and social changes has led to widespread transformation of China’s post-secondary education to meet changing labor market and social needs and simultaneously to develop a corps of world-class universities assumed to be needed for China’s growing importance as a major leader in world affairs. The presentation will consider some … Read more

Early Childhood Education, Postcolonial Theory, and Teaching Practices in India: Balancing Vygotsky and the Veda

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Conceptualized within a socio-cultural constructivist and postcolonial paradigm, the book explores a definite tension between “Western” theories of child development and the “Indian” ways of being and thinking. Based on the author’s doctoral study, the book provides a richly descriptive and relatively unexamined account of the culturally complex and multi-dimensional relationship that exists in urban … Read more

Experiencing China and Chinese Culture: CUNY Study Abroad in China

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This lecture will talk about unique features of CUNY-Asian-faculty-led study abroad in China program. In particular, the lecture will discuss various educational benefits of the program while students and faculty have real experience of China’s society, the people, the language, and culture. Topics: how the trip is organized prominent and unique features of the program … Read more