Book Talks
The UW-Madison School of Education Network’s Practical Wisdom Series is a unique program that provides professional development opportunities through shared research knowledge and practical wisdom, for graduate students.
Bianca Baldridge
The purpose of these talks was to showcase important work being done by UW faculty, give School of Education members the opportunity to engage with important topics, and facilitate building relationships and making new connections between and among SOE faculty and community partners.
Bianca Baldridge is an assistant professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies (EPS). During her book talk, she discussed her book Reclaiming Community: Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work with Nathan Beck, the Madison Out-of-School Time Coordinator (City of Madison and MMSD). The two discussed the importance of community-based after-school spaces both generally and in Madison, as well as the social, political and economic pressures facing youth work.
Carl Grant
in April 2019, featured Dr. Carl Grant (C&I and the faculty director of UW-Madison's Multicultural Learning Communities), and a panel discussion with Dr. John Diamond (ELPA, Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education), and Dr. Jordan Conwell (EPS and Sociology), moderated by The Network's Dr. Tony Chambers. After an overview of Dr. Grant’s new book, DuBois and Education , panelists engaged in an interdisciplinary discussion of DuBois' work as it relates to his time and our own and then participated in a discussion with the audience of 41 guests.
Make it stand out.
The Network hosted three book talks during the 2018-2019 academic year. Starting in November 2018, The Network invited Dr. David Williamson Shaffer (Educational Psychology) to provide highlights from his book, Quantitative Ethnography, which discusses a methodology to span the gap between qualitative and quantitative research. Former UW-Madison Dr. James Gee, now Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, joined Shaffer for a discussion of the book and conversation with the audience of 55 individuals spanning various departments.