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Vivian L. Gadsden
William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education
Learning, Teaching, and Literacies Division
Vivian Gadsden will help kick off the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting by delivering a Distinguished Lecture April 9.
Titled “The Education and Social Imperative for Responsibility and Partnerships: Can Children and Their Families Count on Us?”, Gadsden will ask two guiding questions: Whether and how our field responds to the call to fulfill our commitment to the well-being of children and their families and how we will demonstrate that they can count on us to dream with them and to act with purpose in their best interests.
A past president of AERA, Gadsden’s work focuses on the cultural and social factors affecting learning and literacy across the life-course and within families, particularly those at the greatest risk for academic and social vulnerability.
Also at AERA this year, Yasmin Kafai will chair a Research Science & Policy Forum session April 9: “Cultivating Interest and Competencies in Computing: Authentic Experiences and Design Factors – A Report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine”.
On April 10, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas will chair “Topsy, Bopsy, and Black Girlhood: What Lovecraft Country Can Teach Us About How Black Girls Are Seen (And See Themselves)”, part of the Cinematic Intersection Series of Presidential Sessions.
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