Critical Examination of Race and Racism in Teacher Education (CERiTE) invites you to an open lecture on:
- Who controls narratives about racism in society?
- Can a pedagogy for social justice be created through cooperation with the local community?
These are some of the questions Christine Sleeter (California State University) and Reza Gholami (University of Birmingham) will address in a guest lecture organized by the research project CERiTE.
Both Sleeter and Gholami are internationally recognized educational researchers who have worked widely with anti-racism and inclusion in multicultural societies.
Anti-racism and social justice are relevant topics for all teachers in Norwegian kindergartens, schools, and higher education. We know that people in Norway experience racism, but who controls how racism is expressed? And can it bear significance for different educational contexts? In all educational arenas in Norway, one meets people with different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different skin colours, different religions and views of life, different languages and so on. Can we think differently about education in such a context? Can collaborating with the local community contribute to developing a pedagogy for social justice?
Christine Sleeter has provided the title Struggles over Who Controls the Narrative about Race and Racism in Society.
The title for Reza Gholami’s lecture is Thinking and Working with “Diasporic Education”: Collaborative Community-Led Pedagogies for Social Justice
About the lecturers
About Prof emerita Christine E. Sleeter
Christine E. Sleeter, PhD. is Professor Emerita in the College of Education at California State University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. She has served as a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Maine, University of Colorado Boulder, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Spain.
She is past President of the National Association for Multicultural Education, and past Vice President of the American Educational Research Association. Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education, ethnic studies, and teacher education. She has published over 150 articles and 24 books, most recently Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools (with M. Zavala, Teachers College Press, 2020).
She has also published three novels, the most recent being Family History in Black and White. She is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and of the National Education Policy Center, and a member of the National Academy of Education. Awards for her work include the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award, the Chapman University Paulo Freire Education Project Social Justice Award, and the Willamette University Distinguished Alumni Citation for Professional Achievement.
About Dr Reza Gholami
Dr Reza Gholami is Reader in Sociology of education at the University of Birmingham where he is also the Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Education (CRRE). His research focuses on inclusive, community-led education and he also contributes to wider debates around racism and Islamophobia in education. He earned his PhD in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute of Education in London.
Currently, he is leading a funded project working with non-formal educators in Birmingham, UK, and Melbourne, Australia, to develop innovative educational materials to foster intercommunal learning. Reza is the author of numerous books and articles in his field including co-editing the book Education and Extremisms: Re-Thinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World (Routledge 2018). He also regularly appears in national and international media, including featuring in the BBC Radio 4 documentary ‘The Corrections’ about the Birmingham ‘Trojan Horse’ affair.
- Read more about Dr. Reza Glomai on his profile page at University of Birmingham.
Practical information
The lecture takes place in Auditorium 4 at Hamar campus and is streamed via Zoom (password: 011032)
No registration is required and the lecture is open to all students, staff and others who are interested.
The lecture is in English.
Welcome to the lecture whether you join it in auditorium 4 in Hamar or digitally via Zoom!
Contact information
- prisca.massao@inn.no
- Phone
- +47 62 59 79 58