Newswise — The American Educational Research Association (AERA) will present Emory University Professor Jacqueline Jordan Irvine AERA's Social Justice in Education Award for her efforts to advance social justice through education research. Her research focuses on multicultural education and urban teacher education, with special attention to the education of African American students.
The award will be presented at AERA's 86th Annual Meeting on Monday, April 11, in Montreal, Canada, where approximately 12,000 education researchers from the United States, Canada, and 48 other countries will convene through Friday, April 15. The lecture and award presentation are set for 7:00 p.m. in the Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Salon B.
Professor Irvine's lecture is entitled Increasing the Likelihood of Finding a "Significant Difference" : Social Justice and Educational Research. In this lecture, she argues that the changing demographics, the standardized test score gap, and the current political climate require much more research addressed to social justice. Based on a review of the history of education research and the history of social activism by African American researchers, she urges social justice researchers to think of themselves as public intellectuals who have broad audiences both in and outside of the academy.
Through her professional activities and books, Professor Irvine, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Urban Education, exemplifies the goal of linking education research to social justice. She co-directs the Southern Consortium for Educational Research in Urban Schools, and was founder and director of the Center for Urban Learning/Teaching and Urban Research in Education and Schools, recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a model of best practice in teacher professional development.
Her books include Black Students and School Failure, Growing Up African American in Catholic Schools, Critical Knowledge for Diverse Students, Culturally Responsive Lesson Planning for Elementary and Middle Grades, In Search of Wholeness: African American Teachers and Their Culturally Specific Pedagogy, and Educating Teachers for Diversity: Seeing with the Cultural Eye.
Professor Irvine is the second recipient of AERA Social Justice in Education Award and Lecture. In 2004, the inaugural recipient was AERA Past President James Banks, the Russell F. Stark University Professor and director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle.
The 2005 Selection Committee was chaired by Linda C. Tillman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and included Barbara M. Medina, Adams State College, Alamosa, Colo., and Richard R. Valencia, University of Texas, Austin.
The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is the national research society for more than 22,000 members. AERA is dedicated to advancing knowledge about education, to encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promoting the use of research to improve educational processes and serve the public good.
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