Dr. Bettina Love
CDOR Featured Speaker: Bettina L. Love
Author of We Want to Do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Featured Speaker: "So You Want to Teach" Event Series
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 (Online event, Details forthcoming)
About We Want to Do More than Survive: Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Dr. Bettina L. Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. More
Links
TedTalk: Hip Hop, Grit, and Academic Success
“Liberatory Education” with Dr. Bettina Love and dr. bell hooks
Reading List from Dr. Bettina L. Love
Author of We Want to Do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Featured Speaker: "So You Want to Teach" Event Series
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 (Online event, Details forthcoming)
About We Want to Do More than Survive: Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Dr. Bettina L. Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. More
Links
TedTalk: Hip Hop, Grit, and Academic Success
“Liberatory Education” with Dr. Bettina Love and dr. bell hooks
Reading List from Dr. Bettina L. Love
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Bio
Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and Associate Professor of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia. She is one of the field’s most esteemed educational researchers in the areas of how anti-blackness operates in schools, Hip Hop education, and urban education. Her work is also concerned with how teachers and schools working with parents and communities can build communal, civically engaged schools rooted in intersectional social justice for the goal of equitable classrooms. For her work in the field, in 2016, Dr. Love was named the Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She is also the creator of the Hip Hop civics curriculum GET FREE. In April of 2017, Dr. Love participated in a one-on-one public lecture with bell hooks focused on the liberatory education practices of Black and Brown children. In 2018, Georgia’s House of Representatives presented Dr. Love with a resolution for her impact on the field of education. Dr. Love is a sought-after public speaker on a range of topics, including: antiblackness in schools, Hip Hop education, Black girlhood, queer youth, Hip Hop feminism, art-based education to foster youth civic engagement, and issues of diversity and inclusion. In 2014, she was invited to the White House Research Conference on Girls to discuss her work focused on the lives of Black girls. In addition, she is the inaugural recipient of the Michael F. Adams award (2014) from the University of Georgia. She has also provided commentary for various news outlets including NPR, The Guardian , and the Atlanta Journal Constitution . She is the author of the books We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South . Her work has appeared in numerous books and journals, including the English Journal, Urban Education , The Urban Review, and Journal of LGBT Youth . In 2017, Dr. Love edited a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies focused on the identities, gender performance s, and pedagogical practices of Black and Brown lesbian educators. |
Dr. Bettina Love
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