Teaching for Democracy when Democracy is on the Ballot: Scholar Panel
Join us for this timely conversation about the importance and complexity of teaching for democracy during a pivotal election season.
Meet the Panelists:
Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Professor in Education at Barnard College, is an anthropologist of education. Winner of the American Educational Studies Association Book Critics Award for Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11, Abu El-Haj’s research explores questions about belonging, rights, citizenship, and education raised by globalization, transnational migration, and conflict.
Jonathan E. Collins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Politics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, is a political scientist who focuses on how politics and democratic governance shape education policy and schooling outcomes. Collins has written on urban school reform, school board governance, civics education, and school-based democratic innovation initiative, and serves as the Associate Director of TC’s Center for Educational Equity.
Joseph Kahne is the Ted and Jo Dutton Presidential Professor for Education Policy and Politics and Director of the Civic Engagement Research Group (CERG) at the University of California, Riverside. Author of “Facing partisan conflict: How social studies educators can lead towards a diverse democracy,” Kahne’s research focuses on the influence of school practices and digital media on youth civic and political development.
Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, specializes in intellectual history, with a particular focus on Western political and religious thought. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he is the author of The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (2017), and The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (2016).
The panel will be moderated by Beth C. Rubin, Professor of Social Studies Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Organized by Teachers College’s Program in Social Studies Education. Co-organized by the Programs in English Education, Philosophy and Education, and Politics and Education, and the Cyphers for Justice.
