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[PALESTRA] Blackness, critical justice and language education de 13/10/2021 a 13/10/2021



In these days of pandemic times much has been devoted to analyze where we are and where we are going to in language education.

In this panel we will join two American scholars whose work analyzes critical justice to discuss the challenges we have in language education for black students nowadays. 

Keynote speakers 

Bekisizwe S. Ndimande (Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction; University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching. His research interests span the fields of curriculum studies, education policy, multicultural education, children’s rights, and immigrant education. He has published several journal articles and book chapters, including Pedagogy of the Township, in Sonia Nieto (Ed .), Dear Paulo: Letters from Those who Dare Teach; Race and Resources, Race Ethnicity and Education; and Lutas Docentes nas Escolas Públicas para negros na África do Sul pós-apartheid, Cadernos de Educaçao, a Brazilian journal. Dr. Ndimande’s article, From Bantu Education to the Fight for Socially Just Education, which appeared in Equity & Excellence in Education journal, was among the 18 articles selected by Taylor & Francis Press as representative of the interdisciplinary nature of social justice studies. His research on decolonizing methodology was selected for use as a boxed example of creativity in research in Dr. Helen Kara’s book, Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide, published by the University of Bristol Policy Press. Dr. Ndimande has collaborated with scholars from Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and Northern Ireland.


Jamila Lyiscott aka, Dr. J, is an aspiring way-maker, a community-engaged scholar, nationally renowned speaker, and the author of Black Appetite. White Food: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is the co-founder and co-director of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research. Dr. J is most well known for being featured on TED.com where her video, '3 Ways to Speak English,' has been viewed over 4.8 million times, and for her commissioned TED Talk, '2053' in response to the inauguration of the 45th occupant of the white house. She has delivered keynotes and workshops at 100s of institutions throughout the nation where she works closely with youth, educators, and communities towards racial healing, equity, and justice. 


Organizing committee 

Kelly Barros is assistant professor at Federal University of the Recôncavo da Bahia. Her interests revolve around the teaching of English for black students. She holds a Ph.D. in Language and culture from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

Gabriel Nascimento is assistant professor at Federal University of Southern Bahia, Brazil and was visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania, US. His publications and interests revolve around the interplay of racism and language and in 2019 he authored "Racismo linguístico: os subterrâneos da linguagem e do racismo". He received a Ph.D.  from the University of São Paulo in Language studies. He is now professor of the Graduate program in Language and Literary studies (PPGL) of the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz.