The College of New Rochelle this month will present the second in a series of inaugural lectures celebrating the Inauguration of the College’s 13th president, Judith Huntington. A panel of experts will speak on “Race and Adult Education” (Engaging A Dialogue on Racism) on Wednesday, February 22, 2012, at 7 p.m. in the Sweeny Student Center on the Main Campus of CNR.
The panelists are the authors of The Handbook of Race and Adult Education: A Resource for Dialogue on Racism.
They are:
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- Dr. Vanessa Sheared, Dean of the College of Education, California State University, Sacramento, California.
- Dr. Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Professor of Adult Education and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
- Dr. Scipio A. J. Colin III, Associate Professor, Department of Adult and Continuing Education, National Louis University, Chicago, Illinois.
While much attention has been given to inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism within adult education, The Handbook of Race and Adult Education is the first comprehensive work to engage in a dialogue specifically about race and racism and the effect these factors have on the marginalization or oppression of groups and individuals.
According to the publisher, Jossey-Bass, “This landmark book provides the field of adult and continuing education with a model for the discussion of race and racism from social, educational, political, and psychological perspectives.”
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The book offers adult education scholars, as well as those engaged in research and teaching about race, an opportunity to engage in a discourse about race and racism, including examinations of how these factors have been seen through multiple theoretical frameworks; how they have affected many lived experiences at work, home, and within educational settings; and how they have served to privilege some and not others.
The book also offers, as stated on the book jacket, “an exploration into how these factors need to be centered in a discourse and perspective that can provide those in the margins as well as in the center with ways to think about creating changes in their classrooms, communities, and homes.”
This panel discussion is presented free and is open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Joan Bailey, Vice President for Mission and Identity, at (914)654-5547 or jbailey@cnr.edu. For directions, visit www.cnr.edu
