Organized by the Department of History and co-sponsored by U of T's Black Research Network, this virtual roundtable event, featuring faculty and student panellists, will celebrate the launch of the book Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers by Funké Aladejebi, an assistant professor in the Department of History.
The Schooling the System roundtable will bring together speakers who take up aspects of Aladejebi's book that they see as critically important, bringing their different disciplinary perspectives to the conversation. The roundtable will help the audience to contextualize the book and the issues that it raises as a critical nexus between our collective Black presents, pasts and futures.
The book — together with the conversation — also offer a starting place for thinking about Black experiences of education.
This is a historical moment when it is critical to recognize the role that Black educators have played — and continue to play — in institutional and pedagogical change at all levels of learning, including at universities like our own.
Speakers
- Professor Funké Aladejebi, Department of History
- Professor Chris Johnson, Women & Gender Studies Institute
- Professor Melanie J. Newton, Department of History — Moderator
- Professor Lance McCready, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE
- Catherine Grant-Wata, PhD student, Department of History
- Sabrina McLennon, undergraduate student, Major in Pharmacology, Minor in History & Bioethics
Date & Time
Monday, February 28, 2022
– 8:30
Register
The roundtable is free, but advanced registration is required.