Antonia Darder “Education in a Time of Uncertainty: Forging a New Struggle” A student of Paulo Freire’s, Professor Antonia Darder is an engaged intellectual with a distinguished history of fighting for the rights of women, workers, and immigrants. A passionate supporter of bilingual education and the educational rights of all children, she founded the California Consortium of Critical Educators (CCE), an organization dedicated to fostering an educational experience that promotes social justice, human rights, and economic prosperity. Her most recent work explores the racialization of daily life within the historical context of economic and political disenfranchisement faced by both students and teachers of many urban communities. Antonia Darder is the author of several influential books, including Culture and Power in the Classroom and Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy of Love. Of her most recent book, After Race: Racism after Multiculturalism co-authored with Rodolfo Torres, William Julius Wilson writes: “A very thoughtful analysis of the need to move beyond the traditional black/white paradigm to address the dynamic aspects of racialized inequalities … This provocative book will be widely discussed and debated.” She is also the co-editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies: Latinos and Education, The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy, and Society, and The Critical Pedagogy Reader. Darder began her teaching career as a professor of Education and Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University and the director of the Institute for Cultural Studies in Education. Professor Darder was the recipient of a Kellogg National Fellowship, which she used to study the culture and education of indigenous Andean people. Currently, Antonia is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Latino/a Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Working paper: Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Uncertainty: Forging a New Movement |
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Children playing games at the Algebra Workshop held this year.
