Invited Speaker: Wortham
Stanton Wortham, Berkowitz Professor of Education (University of Pennyslvania) will present an invited lecture on Monday, February 27, 2012:
"Hope for the Young, but not for the Adolescent: Divergent Ideologies of Language Use in New Latino Diaspora Elementary and Secondary Schools"
Date and Time: Monday, February 27 at 1 p.m. (reception to follow)
Location: 107 Business Building
Stanton Wortham is Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor and Associate Dean in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. His research bridges the fields of anthropology, education, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy by analyzing patterns of interactional discourse in educational and community settings. Major publications include Learning Identity: The Joint Emergence of Social Identification and Academic Learning (Cambridge, 2006) and Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis (Teacher's College Press, 2001).
If you have further questions or need more information regarding this lecture, please contact Vickie Lucas at vlucas@la.psu.edu.
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