Members of the Center for Teaching Social Justice
Judith Green, Carol Dixon, and members of the Center for Literacy, Learning and Inquiry in Networking Communities (formerly Center for Teaching Social Justice) will host “In the Company of Scholars” to celebrate 25 years of working collaboratively. This event will happen on Friday, June 3 from 4 – 6:30 pm in Education Building 1215 and 1217, UC Santa Barbara. The event is free and open to the public. Please assist us in planning and RSVP at your earliest convenience by visiting: linc.education.ucsb.edu.
This event will bring together educational scholars with whom members of the Santa Barbara Classroom Discourse Group and members of the Center for Literacy, Learning and Inquiry in
Networking Communities have had the honor to engage. The goal in this 25th year of its community is to honor colleagues and to share work with colleagues and students in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education.
The Center for Education Research on Literacy & Inquiry in Networking Communities (LINC) explores innovative literacy and inquiry research approaches and curriculum designs for a digital age that networking communities across K-20 are developing. Some communities involve face-to-face networking across sites. Other digital teaching and learning communities are using the potential for collaborative work in real time across geographic space made possible by the development of advanced networking technologies, provided by CALren (CENIC), Internet2 and their partners, nationally and internationally. LINC supports ethnographic research and innovative curriculum designs and research projects that enhance literacy and inquiry knowledge required in a digital age.
The event is partially a celebration of the career of the about-to-retire Professor Judith Green in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School. Her teaching and research focus on teaching-learning relationships, disciplinary knowledge as socially constructed, and ethnographic research and discourse studies of the patterns of everyday life in classroom.
As a founding member of the Santa Barbara Classroom Discourse Group, a collaborative community of teacher ethnographers, student ethnographers and university-based ethnographers, Dr. Green explores questions guided by theories on the social construction of knowledge. The goal is to identify principles of practices that teachers (and others) use to support equity of access for all students. As a co-director of LINC, the Center for Education Research for Literacy and Inquiry in Networking Communities, she works with teachers and researchers to explore how the new advanced technology networks support innovative learning opportunities. Dr. Green and her colleagues have an approach to curriculum and technology in which teachers and students create a virtual and interactive community in which they plan collaborative research across city, state and national borders and share their local inquiry to make global connections.
Dr. Green has been teaching for more than 4 decades across levels of schooling (K-20). She received her M.A. in Educational Psychology from California State University, Northridge (1970), where she learned about child and language development. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she explored the relationships between teaching and learning, literacy and knowledge construction. Her recent research focuses on how classroom practices support access to students across academic disciplines in classrooms and in virtual communities. Among her many awards and honors, Green is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, a member of the Reading Hall of Fame, and the inaugural winner of the John. J. Gumperz Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarship by the Language and Social Processes Special Interest Group (LSP SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).