Child Development presents:Teresa McCarty, Feb 26 discussing Language Policy for Families

February 16, 2015
As part of series of speakers on child and family policy hosted by the Child Development and their senior capstone course: Policy Analysis and Advocacy, Dr. Teresa McCarty will be coming to HSU on February 26 to discuss Language Policy for Families. This event was rescheduled from the fall.

Dr. McCarty is the author of Language Planning and Policy in Native America: History, Theory, Praxis, and co-author of To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education and Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism: Language Identity, Ideology, and Practice in Dynamic Cultural Worlds, among others. She is a current editor of the American Educational Research Journal and the Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology in UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
 
We are grateful for the continuing support of the College of Professional Studies, which has made this event possible We are grateful, as well, for the support of so many campus departments and community organizations, in helping us to welcome Dr. McCarty to campus. 
 
Please share the attached flyer with students and colleagues who may be interested in thinking more deeply about language, families and "how macro-level policies can be re-envisioned to support cultural and linguistic diversity and more inclusive, socially just education practices."

I hope you can join us in Goodwin Forum on Thursday, February 26 at 6:00 pm
Sincerely, 
Mary Ann Hansen
Instructor, CD 479: Policy Analysis and Advocacy

Child Development Department

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