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Talk Back to the Internet ☆

Talk Back to the Internet: a making workshop event. Organized by Sean Justice & Richard Jochum, and sponsored by the Myers Media Art Studio, Program in Art & Art Education. Led by Don Miller, an artist and learning designer.


Reposted from Myers Media Art Studio. Written by mediaartstudio.

On Saturday, April 27, we held a fabulous event called Talk Back to the Internet, led by Don Miller from the Institute of Play. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the material of the Internet, the code, in order to create our own participatory drawing application. By the end of the day — …

Posted 7 days ago by Ravi Ahmad

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Celebration of Maria Torres-Guzman’s Scholarship ☆

On Friday, May 3rd and Saturday, May 4th the Program in Bilingual/Bicultural Education invited current students, graduates, faculty and colleagues from across Teachers College to join in celebrating the career and legacy of Professor Maria Torres-Guzman on the occasion of her retirement. A two-day conference sponsored by the Blue Sky Asian-American Research Foundation along with the Arts & Humanities …

Posted 7 days ago by A&H

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New Faculty: Dr. Richard Jochum

We're excited to welcome Dr. Richard Jochum to the Art Education Program as the new Associate Professor of Art Education! Dr. Jochum, who earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna in Austria and his MFA in Sculpture and Media Art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, brings with him an …

Posted 5 months ago by Lydia Kim

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Studio Learning and Non-Art Graduate Students: A worthwhile match?

Olga Hubard, Assistant Professor of Art Education at Teachers College, is rethinking what it means to get a graduate education. Her current study, entitled Studio learning and non-art graduate students: A worthwhile match? investigates the benefits of studio art courses for students who are not in an art related field of study.

Posted 12 months ago by marieweller

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Parents As Researchers: Musical Lessons From Our Children ☆

Recently, TC's Associate Professor of Music Education Lori Custodero was published in the Huffington Post's internet newspaper.

Posted 13 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Building Communities of Readers ☆

Bilingual/Bicultural Education Associate Professor Carmen Martínez-Roldán believes that building a child’s identity as a reader, in any way possible, is one sure way to positively impact literacy and foster a greater connection to school. Working in collaboration with professors from the UK, Spain, and Australia, her research involves using wordless texts as a basis for …

Posted 14 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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New Faculty: Dr. Inez Heath ☆

We’d like to warmly welcome Dr. Inez A. Heath who is joining our TESOL/AL program as a lecturer.  Dr. Heath, who is originally from Gainesville, Florida earned her PhD in Multilingual, Multicultural Education from Florida State University, with a secondary concentration in International Development Education. Dr. Heath has a passion for indigenous cultures and South …

Posted 14 months ago by Lydia Kim

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New Faculty: Dr. Arieh Sherris

Returning from Saudi Arabia, Ghana, and Mt. Kilimanjaro this year, Dr. Ari Sherris is a welcome addition to the TESOL/AL program. With a Ph.D in Second Language Learning from George Mason University, Dr. Sherris has lived and worked in a variety of places and fields, most of which related to education and education reform. Most recently in Saudi Arabia, he co-founded …

Posted 14 months ago by Lydia Kim

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Unlocking the Mysteries of a Photographic Archive ☆

Dr. Steven Dubin’s interest in South Africa began in 2000 when he visited the country on the way to delivering a paper at a conference in Namibia and discovered that everything he was studying in America was happening in South Africa as well, with incredible urgency. On his latest annual research trip to South Africa, …

Posted 15 months ago by marieweller

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Breaking Barriers: English Education Diversity Class Welcomes The Steinhardt School of Education ☆

English Education’s Diversity class, taught by Professor Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, recently welcomed special guests: 26 New York University Steinhardt School of Education undergraduates, along with their two professors, Dr. Suzanne Carothers (Director of the Undergraduate Childhood Program in Teaching & Learning at Steinhardt) and Ms. Susan Browne, (lead teacher at NYC's Children's Workshop school).

Posted 15 months ago by Amy Wolf

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The Colloquium in Philosophy and Education ☆

A long-standing element of its academic program, the Colloquium in Philosophy and Education is rooted in the centuries-old tradition of Philosophy as an academic discipline.  The Colloquium represents a chance for students to experience a variety of perspectives that will help them examine such questions and concepts as “what is justice?” or “what does it …

Posted 16 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Thinking Through Drawing Symposium: Practice Into Knowledge ☆

In a weekend that brought together leaders in such diverse fields as medicine, architecture, textile design and cognitive science and gave them a commonality, the Art and Art Education Department’s recent Thinking Through Drawing Symposium was a ground-breaking event and the first of its kind in the nation.  “This has been a long time coming,” …

Posted 16 months ago by Amy Wolf

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English Education Professor Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz on Bullying ☆

In a story investigating a spate of violent anti-Asian attacks in an impoverished, culturally mixed South Philadelphia high school, Spot.us (a nonprofit platform to pioneer community powered reporting) spoke to English Education Professor Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz about the underlying causes of bullying. Read her response--as well as the steps this particular school took to make the classroom …

Posted 17 months ago by Amy Wolf

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“The Teacher and the World: A Study of Cosmopolitanism as Education” Philosophy and Education Professor David Hansen’s Book Debuts ☆

A chance for students to experience a variety of perspectives that will help them examine philosophical questions and concepts, the Colloquium in Philosophy and Education meets about seven times each semester and welcomes notable scholars in the field from around the world to share their own point of view. November 17th’s session was a particularly …

Posted 17 months ago by Amy Wolf

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English Education Professor Ernest Morrell on Police Discipline in Public Schools ☆

For the first time, police have released records of the arrests and summons they make at public schools. The results have confirmed fears of civil rights groups that pushed for its release. Laura Keller of NY City Lens (a news website produced by students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism) tells the story, …

Posted 17 months ago by Amy Wolf

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A Learning Lab for Language Teachers: A Look at the Community English Program at Teachers College ☆

Located in the basement of Horace Mann, the Community English Program (CEP) at TC is hard for anyone to find who’s not looking for it. But for the adults who come from the community to receive English language classes and work with the TESOL and Applied Linguistics majors who teach there, it’s a place they …

Posted 17 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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Imagination and Innovation in Art Education History: December 2-4, 2011 ☆

This December an important Art Education History conference will be hosted at TC by the Program of Art and Art Education, under the direction of Professor Judith Burton and offered as a part of the annual Conversations Across Cultures series.

Posted 18 months ago by Amy Wolf

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The Rhetoric of Choice: Segregation, Desegregation, and Charter Schools ☆

Writing in the Fall 2011 issue of Dissent Magazine, History and Education Assistant Professor Ansley Erickson argues that a common thread links the current rhetoric of "school choice" and opposition to court-ordered busing for desegregation 40 years ago.

Posted 18 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Racial Literacy Roundtable with Dr. Chance Lewis ☆

October 10 will kick-off the first session of this semester’s Racial Literacy Roundtables Series (RLRs), originally developed by Professor Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz and English Education MA students Emily Carman (’10), Lauren Gengo (’10) and James Kang (’10) to supplement the English Education diversity class and provide another meaningful platform to talk about teaching in a diverse …

Posted 19 months ago by Amy Wolf

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A Conversation with Dr. Razia Sadik, TC Alumna, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Artist ☆

You received your undergraduate degree in Pakistan, then earned your MFA and a post-graduate diploma in England. How did you wind your way to TC? After I received my MFA, I went back to Pakistan and taught art full-time for seven years at a middle and high school and two professional undergraduate and graduate art …

Posted 19 months ago by Amy Wolf

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