Peggy McIntosh Keynote - For Educators
The UI&U Master of Education Program Invites all Vermont educators to join our learners for Five Frames of Mind for Looking at Education
Presented by Dr. Peggy McIntosh, Author of White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Sunday, February 24, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
The Chapel in Old College Hall, Vermont College Campus, Montpelier, VT
Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D., will describe five interactive ways of looking at life and at education. The different views of life produce tremendously different outcomes. The talk will start with the most exclusive ways of seeing, which McIntosh was taught in her own culture and class framework, and will move through increasingly more inclusive
ways of seeing which she has become committed to over time. These 'phases' are interactive in the sense that early childhood and school experience does not ever get completely outgrown, but it can be modified to include more of the world and to change one's life in positive ways.
McIntosh is a senior research scientist and associate director with the Wellesley Centers for Women, and founder and co-director of the National Seeking Educational & Equity Diversity (SEED) Project on Inclusive Curriculum. The SEED Project helps eachers create their own year-long, school-based seminars on making school climates, K-12
curricula, and teaching methods more gender fair and multi-culturally equitable.
Dr. McIntosh directs the Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Project, which provides workshops on privilege systems, feelings of fraudulence, and diversifying workplaces, curricula, and teaching methods. She has taught English, American Studies, and Women's Studies at the Brearley School, Harvard University, Trinity College (Washington, D.C.), Durham University (England), and Wellesley College.
She is co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute, and has been consulting editor to Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women. In 1993-1994, she consulted with women on 22 Asian campuses on the development of Women's Studies and programs to bring materials from Women's Studies into the main curriculum. In addition to having two honorary degrees, she is a recipient of the Klingenstein Award for Distinguished Educational Leadership from Columbia Teachers College.
A $10 donation is requested. All proceeds from this event will benefit the SEED Project.
Space is limited. To reserve a seat, please register as soon as possible by contacting Shelley Matz (802/828-8810) or shelley.matz@tui.edu.