First International Conference on Education, Labor, and Emancipation

The Freirean Legacy: Educating for Social Justice

October 26-27, 2000, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

The College of Education, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Center for Labor Research & Studies, and Asian Studies at Florida International University are pleased to announce a unique participative opportunity for the community.  Scholars and distinguished speakers in the fields of education, social justice, critical pedagogy, Latin American labor relations, global comparative studies and Asian studies will be brought together in an interactive forum.  Participants will present their own genuine perspective and theories on the limits and possibilities for liberation of policy and practice.

Internationally known participants include:

Ana Maria (Nita) Freire, liberation pedagogist, who extends the work of her husband, the late Paulo Freire, author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed.  Nita Freire is an author in her own right having written Literacy in Brazil. She has presented internationally at conferences and as guest speaker on such themes as educational reform and social justice and emancipation.

Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is an educator and social activist, author and editor of over thirty books, which include Life in Schools, Critical Pedagogy, Predatory Culture, and Revolutionary Multiculturalism.

Joe. L. Kincheloe, Professor, CUNY-Brooklyn College and The Pennsylvania State University, new works include Contextualizing Teaching with Patrick Slattery and Shirley Steinberg, and Measured Lies, the Bell Curve Examined and White Reign, Deploying Whiteness in America with Shirley Steinberg.

Shirley Steinberg, is at Adelphi University is co-author of Contextualizing Teaching, Measured Lies, and White Reign, and the author of Multicultural Conversations, and has established herself as a leading editor of educational texts dealing with such questions as multiculturalism and social justice.

Theodore R. Young, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Director of Academic Programs, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University. Current publications include O Questionamento da História em O Tempo e o Vento de Erico Verissimo. Lajeado:Editora da UNIVATES, and A Twice-Told Tale: Reinventing the Old World- New World Encounter in Latin American Literature and

Film.