Teaching as Ethnography is Topic of
Lecture
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus on October 10
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alka Gupta and Peg Byron
September 23, 2002 |
Brooklyn, N.Y. - "What jelly beans, dead rabbits, puzzling
events and blank spaces have to do with literacy" is one way
that Karen Gallas, an expert on teacher research, describes teaching.
Also an author and elementary school teacher, Gallas will discuss
"Teaching as Ethnography" at a lecture sponsored
by the School of Education's Center for Urban Educators at Long Island
University's Brooklyn Campus. Free and open to the public, the talk
will take place on Thursday, October 10, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
in Library Learning Center Room 122.
A teacher since 1972, Gallas has been a principal of a charter school;
a professor of education at the University of Maine; and a graduate
faculty member at Lesley College and Wheelock College in Boston. Most
recently, she taught kindergarten on the Ramah Navajo Reservation
in Pine Hill, New Mexico.
She has written three books, all published by Teachers College
Press. They are "The Languages of Learning: How Children
Talk, Write, Dance, Draw and Sing Their Understanding of the World,"
"Talking Their Way Into Science: Hearing Children's Questions
and Theories, Responding with Curriculum," and "Sometimes
I Can Be Anything: Power, Gender and Identity in a Primary Classroom."
Currently at work on a book on imagination and its place in the literacy
process, Gallas has also contributed articles to Language Arts, Research
in the Teaching of English, The Reading Teacher, the Harvard Educational
Review, Women and Language, The Journal of Education, and The Rural
Educator.
For more information, call Katrinka Moore at (718) 488-1378.
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