SEEING DIFFERENTLY:
WORKING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
THROUGH DESCRIPTIVE INQUIRY
 
A Working Conference Planned and Sponsored by
 

The Center for Urban Educators

Keynote Speaker
Sarah Hudelson
 
What Does It Take to Learn a Second Language?
 
Saturday, May 7, 2005
9 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.
at
Long Island University/Brooklyn
Zechendorf Heath Sciences Center
 
Sarah Hudelson is Professor in the Division of Curriculum and
Instruction, College of Education, Arizona State University, Tempe
Campus.  A former elementary school teacher of migrant bilingual
children, she earned her Ph.D. in Reading and Bilingual education at the
University of Texas at Austin.  She has carried out several research
projects focused on bilingual children's native and second language
literacy development.  She has collaborated with educators in long term
professional development efforts around literacy and practitioner
research.  What has been most important to her about these
collaborations is that teachers have constructed their own knowledge.

 


Schedule for the day

 
            9:00.........Registration and breakfast
9:45.........Framing Remarks-Cecelia Traugh, Director of the Center for
Urban
      Educators
10:30........Working Inquiry Groups
1:00..........Lunch
1:45..........Keynote Address-Sarah Hudelson
2:30..........Responding to the day
 

Participants in this conference will be actively involved in inquiry
groups with parents, teachers, teacher educators, and students of
teaching.  We will use Prospect Center's Descriptive Processes to look
closely at children, children's works and teachers' works to:

 

*      Find language for the advocacy of children with language
differences and other special needs


*      Seriously explore issues of power and social justice in teaching
and learning


*      Learn about inquiry communities in schools exploring issues of
standards, inclusion/exclusion in school communities, blurring the line
between school and community literacies

 
 
 
 
The mission of the Center for Urban Educators is the reform of urban
teacher education.  The vision of teaching and schools guiding CUE's
work is one that supports teachers as socially responsible people who
are intellectually engaged and act as advocates for children, parents,
and their communities.  CUE works within the School of Education at Long
Island University's Brooklyn campus and in partnership with New York
City public schools.
 
Descriptive Inquiry as it is practiced in the Center for Urban Educators
has its roots in the work of Patricia Carini and the Prospect Center in
North Bennington, VT.  More information is available from CUE or the
Prospect Center-802-442-8333 or prospect@sover.net  
 
Registration and Fees
 
The fee for this conference is $20 (Long Island University students are
exempted from this charge.)  Please return the following form to
indicate your plans to attend the Conference.
 
The Zechendorf  Heath Sciences Center is located just inside the De Kalb
Ave. gate.  The building can also be reached by going through the
Metcalf Building at the intersection of Flatbush and De Kalb..  For
directions to the Brooklyn Campus downtown Brooklyn, please log on to:
http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/location/directions.html.
You can FAX  your registration to Marita Downes, 718-488-3472 or email
it to marita.downes@liu.edu. Then, please send a copy of the form with
your check or money order for $20.00 payable to Long Island University
by April 16th.  Address to:  Marita Downes, School of Education, Pratt
210, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, One University Plaza,
Brooklyn, NY  11201-5372.  For more information contact Marita Downes at
(718)488-1378 or marita.downes@liu.edu.
 
 
 
Name:_________________________________________________________________
LIU student ____
 
Address:________________________________________________________________
 
Phone number:________________________e-mail
address_______________________
 
Role in
education:_________________________________________________________
 
An important part of this Conference is the working inquiry groups
scheduled for the morning.  In these groups, you will use collaborative,
descriptive inquiry to look closely at children and teaching practice.
In order to create these inquiry groups, we need some information about
your interests.  Please fill out the following so that we can make a
good placement for you.  
I would prefer to be in a  Descriptive Review of:
 a child  _____                   a Teacher's Practice  _____
either type of review  ____
 
I am interested in:
young children [early childhood] _____      children in grades three to
six  _____   adolescents _____
 
I teach in: 
elementary school (or will begin teaching elementary school in 9/05),
grade _____ 
middle school/junior high school, [subject] _______________________

high school [subject] __________________________
adult education __________________________
in higher education __________________________
 
Please share any other interests you may have that could be helpful in
placing you in a group.  For example, literacy, math in elementary
school, building classroom community:  
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
__________________________
 
 
New teacher credit is available.
 
 
