What We Know and How We Know It

“As an African American educator, one of my main concerns is that we all need tobe liberated from schooling that perpetuates America’s myths,” King has written.
“One such myth that constrains our freedom of thought and our ability to pursue
social justice concerns our national identity.”

Her lecture will examine ways to break from these myths and imagine a
transformative curriculum of K-16 education that is not racially biased and that is
culturally enabling of all students.

King, currently the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Teaching, Learning and
Leadership at Georgia State University, has had a distinguished career in academia,
holding the titles of professor, provost, associate vice chancellor, director of teacher
education, and department head at esteemed institutions such as Spelman College,
the Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, the University of
New Orleans, Santa Clara University, Stanford University, and Mills College.

She has published three books: Preparing Teachers for Diversity (Teachers College
Press, 1997); Teaching Diverse Populations (SUNY Press, 1994); and Black Mothers
to Sons: Juxtaposing A frican-American Literature with Social Practice (Peter Lang
Publishing, 1995).

The Department of Black Studies Graduate Emphasis in conjunction with the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education presents Joyce King, the Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Teaching, Learning and Leadership at George State University as the Black History Month Distinguished Lecturer for 2013.

Dr. King is the author of the book, Black Education: A Transformative Research & Action Agenda for the New Century, published by the American Education Research Association, the premier association of research in American education, in 2005, as part of a multiyear study of education in America. Her work draws heavily on methodologies and epistemologies of Black Studies, particularly the work of our late Professor Clyde Woods on “blues epistemologies” in African American culture.

Please join us in the Pollock Theatre at 5 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013 to hear her lecture, “What We Know and How We Know,” a critical look at American education today.

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