The College of Education is hosting a Centennial Lecture on February 17, 2009, from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. in the LSU Laboratory School Auditorium. Professor Janet L. Miller of Teachers College, Columbia University will present a talk, "Engaging Hopeful Visions and Complex Realities in Teaching and Educational Leadership" and lead the discussion following.
Phi Delta Kappa, The Curriculum Theory Project, The Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Practice, and the College of Education are sponsoring Miller's visit and lecture. Miller also serves as Director of Research in the Department of Arts & Humanities at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has served as elected American Educational Research Association (AERA) Vice-President for Division B (Curriculum Studies) for the 1997-99 term, and as elected Secretary of Division B for the 1990-92 term. At the 2008 annual conference, Miller received the AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Lifetime Achievement Award.
From 1978 through 1998, Professor Miller also served as Managing Editor of The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (JCT) and as Chair of JCT's Bergamo Curriculum Theorizing Conferences. She was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS) for two consecutive terms, from 2001 through 2007. She is the author of Creating Spaces and Finding Voices: Teachers Collaborating for Empowerment (SUNY Press, 1990) and Sounds of Silence Breaking: Women, Autobiography, Curriculum (Peter Lang, 2005). In 1992, she received the James N. Britton Award from the National Council of Teachers of English as well as Hofstra University's Stessin Prize for her book, Creating Spaces and Finding Voices. In 1998, she was awarded National-Louis University's University-wide Faculty Excellence in Research Award.
"Engaging Hopeful Visions and Complex Realities in Teaching and Educational Leadership"
Abstract
How might educators intentionally choose to frame our work as a hopeful yet complex project in relation to and with fellow teachers, students, administrators, parents and community members? And how might our project of educating and providing leadership not always yield to pressures for generalizable solutions or static versions of educative practices and relationships?
Miller discusses how viewing our work together as a project requires daily engagement with intentional, on-going, and sometimes antagonistic processes of meaning-making in light of constantly changing educative contexts and expectations. She discusses how such a project forces us to consider what it might mean to teach, research and provide leadership when familiar categories break down in the face of complexities of lived lives as well as of particular institutions, historical moments, cultural practices and social contexts that are unpredictable, unrepeatable and filled with difference.
For more information,
Angela Owings Broussard
College of Education
Office of Public Affairs
225-578-0962
abrous2@lsu.edu
Janet Miller Lecture Poster
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