Professor Adam Howard of Colby College will present a lecture about issues regarding research methodology and the power dynamics of engaging in research with elite groups. He will present lecture, titled “Studying Up: Redirecting the Research Lens,” in 225 Peabody on March 19, 2009 from 5-6 p.m. There will be a reception proceeding, from 4-5 p.m.
An abstract of the lecture as well as a brief biographical statement presenting an overview of Professor Howard’s career accomplishments to date are included below.
Abstract:
While recent advances in the scholarship of elite groups have provided critical understandings of the relationship between privilege and inequality, affluence and poverty, there is much ground yet to cover, and important questions remain to be addressed. Many of these questions are conceptual, but in this talk Professor Adam Howard will address issues regarding methodology and the power dynamics of engaging in research with elite groups. He draws on his experiences as a researcher "studying up" to address the role that complex personal, political, and intellectual subjectivities play in the research endeavor.
Biographical Statement
Adam Howard is Associate Professor of Education at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He has published numerous articles and papers on social class and issues of privilege in relation to education, and in the area of curriculum theory. He is co-editor of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing and chairs the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice. He is also co-editor of Handbook of Research on Cooperative Education and Internships (LEA, 2004) and author of Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in the Affluent Schooling (Routledge, 2008).
For more information,
Angela Owings Broussard
College of Education
Office of Public Affairs
225-578-0962
abrous2@lsu.edu
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