Today and tomorrow, the University of Wyoming is hosting two public events with eminent anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath! Here are the details:
Inside the Ethnographers Studio: A Dialogue with Shirley Brice Heath
Monday, March 29
5:00 p.m.
Art Museum
University of Wyoming Centennial Complex
2111 Willett Drive Laramie, WY
Signifying on Bravo’s popular craft seminar, Inside the Actors Studio, the literacy education faculty of the College of Education has organized an Inside the Ethnographers Studio event with Shirley Brice Heath as its first guest. Dr. Heath’s work is diverse and far-reaching. She has studied language and literacy practices in a wide variety of American communities and enclaves; teaching and learning business, literacy, and the arts in community based organizations for youth; and, most recently, aboriginal youth making art. Dr. Heath will be interviewed by Wendy Bredehoft (Education Curator, UW Art Museum), Allen Trent (Professor of Educational Studies), and Allen Linde (Laramie High School Art Teacher) on various aspects of her work. A question-and-answer session with the audience will follow.
Inside the Ethnographers Studio will be followed by a reception, the opening of the Harold Garde exhibit, and Art Talk: Harold Garde and Pam Coffman.
SPONSORED BY THE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN LITERACY EDUCATION, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
Moving the Human Eye and Mind: The grounding of cognition in visual, musical, and literary arts
Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University, Brown University
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Time: 4:15-5:30 p.m.
Place: Classroom Building Room 129
The inextricable links between the development of science and advances in aesthetic creativity go unnoticed in current arguments for denying opportunities to develop creativity, to work across multiple media and modes, to develop expertise in visual perception and the production of imaginative visual renderings of thought and knowledge. Technological advances make imperative the reading, embodying, and creating of images to such an extent that neuroscientists now see these ways of learning as grounding cognition in fundamental ways. This lecture considers these research findings in terms of implications for human learning across the life span.
MacArthur Prize winner and author of the classic educational ethnography, Ways with Words: Language, Life, and work in Communities and Classrooms, Shirley Brice Heath is a world renowned linguistic anthropologist who has studied topics as diverse as language and literacy socialization in families and communities, the development of creativity in the visual, musical, and performing arts, strategic problem-solving in real-life settings, the nature and effects of learning within community based organizations for youth, and how responsible roles accelerate desires for organizational, scientific, and mathematical knowledge. Professor Heath has taught at universities throughout the world—most notably at Stanford University, Brown University, Georgetown University, the University of Stockholm, Kings College, and the University of London. Her resource guide and prize-winning documentary ArtShow (2000) features young leaders in four interracial and cross-class community arts organizations in the United States. She also directed and produced other short documentaries on youth organizations dedicated to the sustainable agriculture and environmental architecture.
For more information on Professor Heath’s life and work, visit http://www.shirleybriceheath.net.
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Literacy Education, College of Education, University of Wyoming
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