Gloria Ladson-Billings

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region = Dr. Gloria J. Ladson-Billings
era = 20th century pedagogical philosophy
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name = Dr. Gloria J. Ladson-Billings
birth = 1947
school_tradition = Pedagogical
main_interests = Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Multiculturalism, Social Justice
influences = Critical Race Theory, Multiculturalism, Qualitative Research, History
influenced = Critical Race Theory, Culturally Relevant Educators, Qualitative Researchers
notable_ideas = Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Research in Public Interest, CRT in Education

Gloria J. Ladson-Billings is an American pedagogical philosopher, author, scholar, and teacher educator, and is on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education. Ladson-Billings addresses the issues of educational incongruity in teaching African American children in the 21st Century within her book "The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Children". Dr. Ladson-Billings was the President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2005. During the 2005 AERA annual meeting in San Francisco, Dr. Ladson-Billings delivered her Presidential Address, "From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools," in which she outlined what she called the "Education Debt" highlighting the combination of historical, moral, socio-political, and economic factors that have disproportionately affected African-American, Latino, Asian, and other non-white students.

elected Articles

*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (2005). Is the team all right? Diversity and teacher education. Journal of Teacher Education, 56(2), 229-234.
*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (1996). Silences as weapons: Challenges of a Black professor teaching white students. Theory Into Practice, 35(2), 79-85.
*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (1995). Toward a theory of culturally relevant pedagogy. American Education Research Journal, 35, 465-491.
*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (1995). Toward A critical race theory of education. Teachers College Record, 97, 47-68.

Chapters in edited texts

*Ladson-Billings, G. (2000). Racialized discourses and ethnic epistemologies. N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (eds). Handbook of Qualitative Research (Second edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (1999). Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education. In L. Parker, D. Deyhele, S. Villenas (Eds.) Race is…race isn’t: Critical race theory and qualitative studies in education (7-30). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Books

*Ladson-Billings, G.J. & Tate, W. (2006). Education research in the public interest: Social justice, action, and policy. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. ISBN 0-8077-4705-X
*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (2005). Beyond the big house: African American educators on teacher education. New York, NY: Teacher College Press. ISBN 0-8077-4581-2
*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (2001). Crossing over to Canaan: The journey of new teachers in diverse classrooms. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-7879-5001-7
*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (1997). The dreamkeepers: Successful teachers of African-American children. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-7879-0338-8
*Grant, C. & Ladson-Billings, G.J. [eds.] (1997). Dictionary of multicultural education. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press.

Keynote and presidential addresses

*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (2006). Still_black@the_academy.edu. Keynote address at The National Council of Teachers of English Midwinter Research Assembly, Chicago, IL.
*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (2006). From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools. Presidential address at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
*Ladson-Billings, G.J. (2008). Keynote speaker at the Wisconsin state Martin Luther King Day celebration in the state capitol rotunda at Madison.

External links

* [http://www.aera.net/aboutaera/?id=270 American Educational Research Association]
* [http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/20_02/glor202.shtml Interview with Gloria Ladson-Billings]
* [http://www.wisconsin.edu University of Wisconsin Madison]