ANN: History Education Roundtable, "Challenging American Inequality: Historical Literacy Matters"

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Please join us for a History Education Roundtable, "Challenging American Inequality: Historical Literacy Matters," on March 24, 2015, 3-5pm at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
 
 
 

 

Schomburg Education and Teachers College’s Center on History and Education present

 A History Education Roundtable

Challenging American Inequality: Historical Literacy Matters

Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 3:00-5:00pm

Light refreshments will be served at 2:00pm

 

Why have we traditionally looked to historical knowledge as a building block of democratic participation and a central component of what it means to be an American? How can history pedagogy be framed as a challenge to social and economic inequality? How do we reach young learners to appreciate the study of history as integral to their quality of life and the well-being of American democracy?

 

Remarks:

Thomas James

Provost and Dean of Teachers College and Acting Director of the Center on History and Education

 

Panelists:

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library; Prithi Kanakamedala, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bronx Community College; Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University; and Tim Bailey, Director of Education, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

 

Moderator:

Yohuru R. Williams

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of History, Fairfield University

 

Hosts:

Bette Weneck,  Associate Director of Teachers College’s Center on History and Education

Deirdre Hollman, Schomburg Center’s Director of Education and Exhibitions

 

Location:

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium

515 Malcolm X Blvd at 135th Street in Harlem, NYC

Directions: www.schomburgcenter.org

 

The Center on History and Education is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a gift from Teachers College Trustee, Sue Ann Weinberg.