The School of Education’s 2025 Ganders Lecture welcomes community-engaged scholar Keisha Green to discuss “Working Towards Racial Justice and Educational Equity Through Youth Engaged, Justice-Oriented Literacy and Learning.” The lecture takes place on March 6 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Bird Library’s Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (Room 114).
Keisha Green
Green will revisit one of bell hook’s influential texts—”Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom”—as a way to (re)connect and (re)commit to a justice-oriented, community-based and youth-engaged liberatory project of teaching and learning in the context of today’s political climate and culture wars. In doing so, Green will explore pathways and possibilities for literacy-rich and multi-modal liberal arts-based education.
Green is associate professor of teacher education and curriculum studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her research interests include English education, youth literacy practices, critical literacy and critical pedagogy, and she is published in the “International Journal for Qualitative Studies;” “Equity and Excellence in Education;” “Race, Ethnicity, and Education;” and “Educational Forum.” She also has authored chapters in edited volumes, including in “Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities” and “Youth Voices, Public Spaces and Civic Engagement.”
The Harry S. and Elva K. Ganders Memorial Lecture Series remembers Harry S. Ganders, the School of Education’s fourth dean (who oversaw the transformation of the Teachers College into the “All University” School of Education) and his wife. The lecture was established by the Ganders’ daughters and is also supported by alumni and other contributions to the Harry S. and Elva K. Ganders Memorial Fund.
A Syracuse Symposium 2024-25 event, the lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition, the Engaged Humanities Network and the Syracuse University Humanities Center.
