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Saloshna Vandeyar Speech

Keynote Speech for Student Research Conference

Date:
Time:
6:00 pm – 12:00 am
Teachers College Hall Room: 105
1400 Vine St
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: TEAC
Contact:
Ted Hamann, (402) 472-2285, ehamann2@unl.edu
Saloshna Vandeyar will be visiting UNL in early November from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She will give the keynote speech for the Student Research Conference. Her speech will be Thursday, Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. in 105 Teachers College.

In 2008, Saloshna Vandeyar and Jonathan Jansen published “Diversity High” (University Press of America), which was nominated for the AERA Outstanding Book Award in 2010. “Diversity High” offers an in-depth study of a working-class, formerly Afrikaaner-oriented, high school that re-imagined and renamed itself after South Africa’s system of apartheid was ended. This school’s success at reinvention was both atypical and highly promising. In selecting this school for the study, Vandeyar illustrates how empirical, methodologically sound research can nonetheless be oriented towards social justice, as the depiction of one site’s success in germinating a new social order suggests that it is viable elsewhere. Vandeyar is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities Education, Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria. She is an award-winning NRF-rated scientist. (NRF is South Africa’s government-supported National Research Foundation.) Her current scholarship focuses on the implications of teacher and student identities in constructing classrooms inclusive of racial, linguistic and ethnic identity. A volume she edited, “Hyphenated Selves: Construction, Negotiation and Mediation of Immigrant Identity Within Schools - Transnational Dialogues”, has just been published and includes two University of Nebraska authors among its dozen contributors.

All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend. Contact Ted Hamann if you have questions.

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