By Christina Viglietta
On Thursday, March 21 the Darden College of Education and Professional Studies Department of Teaching and Learning, in partnership with the Literacy Research and Development Center and with support from Dr. Warren Stewart, will host Dr. Bettina Love, Associate Professor of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia. Love will present a lecture entitled, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching, at 6:30 p.m. in the Multipurpose Auditorium, room 1106, in the Education Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
While on campus, Love will be meeting with doctoral students and faculty from the Department of Teaching & Learning to discuss theory and the academic grounding for her work.
Dr. Love is an award-winning author and is one of the field's most esteemed educational researchers in the area of Hip-Hop education. Her research focuses on the ways in which urban youth negotiate Hip Hop music and culture to form social, cultural, and political identities to create new and sustaining ways of thinking about urban education and intersectional social justice. Her work is also concerned with how teachers and schools working with parents and communities can build communal, civically engaged schools rooted in intersectional social justice for the goal of equitable classrooms.
"We are very excited about Bettina's visit and the opportunity to interact with such an impactful scholar and activist. We are certain that ODU students, faculty and the community will be inspired to engage with her message and what it means to be an ally and advocate for educational justice" said Dr. Judith Dunkerly-Bean, Co-Director of the Literacy Research and Development Center.
Copies of Love's latest book, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom will be on sale before the event, 5:30 - 6 p.m., with a signing immediately following the presentation. Copies may also be purchased at the Village Bookstore, located at 4417 Monarch Way in Norfolk.
For information and questions about the lecture, please contact Dr. Judith Dunkerly-Bean at jdunkerl@odu.edu or Dr. Kristine Sunday at ksunday@odu.edu.