University of Massachusetts professor Donaldo Macedo will give a free
lecture and teach a special topics class at Boise State University the
week of July 21.
Macedo’s free keynote address will be at 5 p.m. July 21 in the
Student Union Lookout Room, located on the second floor. Macedo will
sign books following his lecture, “The Hegemony of English or Critical
Citizenship.” A special poster, created in his honor, also will be
unveiled after the lecture.
Macedo will also teach a for-credit class on critical citizenship and
language-related issues from 5-8 p.m. July 21-25; the free lecture is
included in the workshop. Macedo’s workshop will address
bilingual/English as a Second Language outcomes. He will present
arguments in favor of the promotion of equitable education experiences
for all learners, and participants will be invited to engage in critical
conversations. His appearance at Boise State is sponsored by the
Department of Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language.
To register for this one-credit class, visit broncoweb.boisestate.edu.
The fee for undergraduates is $222 and $267 for graduate and doctoral
students. For more information, call 426-4077.
Macedo is the graduate program director of the applied linguistics
master of arts program at UMass and is a distinguished professor of
liberal arts and education. Macedo worked extensively with Paulo Freire,
one of the most influential educational thinkers of the 20th century.
He has published extensively in the areas of linguistics, critical
literacy and bilingual and multicultural education. His publications
include “Literacy: Reading the Word and the World,” “Literacies of
Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know,” “Dancing with
Bigotry,” “Critical Education in the New Information Age,”
“Chomsky on Miseducation” and “Ideology Matters,” among many
others.
