[WSCSS] Controversy in the Classroom - Public Lecutre on 05.08.

[Linser, William D]

* * * Controversy in the Classroom * * *

 

Public Lecture

 

Diana Hess

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

Dr. Diana Hess is the nation's leading expert on teaching with controversy. Formerly of the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, and now Associate Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she is having a dramatic impact on curriculum and instruction in classrooms across the country.  Her talk is based on her new book, Controversy in the Classroom: The Democratic Power of Discussion, in which she provides a spirited, detailed, and wonderfully practical argument for teaching with controversial issues. She shows why curricula based on controversial issues may be the best route to rigor, relevance, and enlightened political engagement.

 

Critics say:

"No one is doing better work on teaching with controversy than Diana Hess. After reading this book, one can't see classrooms or curriculum in quite the same way again. Readers are treated to a conceptually rich and immediately practical gold mine."

--Walter Parker, Professor of Social Studies Education, University of Washington, Seattle

 

"Controversy in the Classroom is a model of scholarship. Diana Hess combines her personal experience as a teacher with rigorous qualitative and quantitative data and philosophical argumentation to conclude that students must learn to be citizens by discussing controversial issues. This is an important and neglected finding that should influence parents, teachers, and policymakers."

--Peter Levine, Director of Research for CIRCLE (Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement), Tufts University

 

 

 


The University of Washington Center for Multicultural Education in the College of Education cordially invites you and your colleagues to the 12th Book Talk in its Book Talk Series

 

 

Friday, May 8th, 2009

UW Club Conference Room

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Book signing to follow.

 

Please RSVP by May 1st, 2008 by Phone: 
(206) 543-3386 or Email: centerme at u.washington.edu <mailto:centerme at u.washington.edu> 


To request disability accommodations, please contact the Office of the ADA Coordinator at least ten days in advance of the event.  543-6450 (Voice); 543-6452 (TDD); 685-3885 (Fax); access at u.washington.edu <mailto:access at u.washington.edu>  (e-mail)