Guest Speaker: Dr. Ranita Ray
Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom
Slow Violence lays bare the routine indifference, racism, and verbal and emotional abuse and harassment that teachers and administrators perpetrate routinely against the most vulnerable children in our schools. Bolstered by an empathetic and passionate voice as well as the latest breaking research in the social sciences, Ray goes beyond timeworn discussions about the school-to-prison pipeline, funding, and achievement gaps to directly address what happens behind the closed doors of classrooms, introducing a compelling— and crucial—new perspective into the conversation about our education system. It allows us to see that the way we’ve tried to make a start in education reform is wrong. To forge new approaches that foster young minds and flourishing generations we must start with how children experience the classroom. Unflinchingly, Slow Violence tells us—and shows us—where to begin.
Join us on Wednesday, March 18th in Library Room 507 (University Honor's Program room).
This event is funded by a CSULB College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Intersections Grant and Associated Students INC. (ASI). It is co-sponsored by the Departments of Human Development, Sociology, and University Honor’s Program.
