Hard to Do and Hard to Learn
Magdalene Lampert
George Herbert Mead Collegiate Chair, School of Education,
University of Michigan
Thursday, March 1, 2012
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Atrium, Mandel Center for the Humanities
Brandeis University, Waltham
Teaching is of deepest interest and concern to educators in both K – 12 and university
worlds, to citizens, and, of course, to students, future teachers, parents, scholars and policy-makers. Yet “teaching” is also elusive. It happens in space and time, but its effects are
often not visible in the same space and time. Is it “teaching” when the teacher writes something on the board? When the teacher “calls on” student X but not on student Y? When a
class is planned, or in tasks assigned, grades given, memories taken away, or only between
such and such hours on such and such a day? Is listening to students teaching?
Magdalene Lampert is one of our foremost scholars of teaching. She is renowned for her
work in mathematics education. She draws deeply on her own extensive teaching in elementary and secondary schools and at the university. Her knowledge and sympathies
speak to the hopes we place on teaching, and the puzzles it presents us with, at all levels.
Professor Lampert will illustrate her talk with classroom videos. Her talk is
free and open to the public.
Sponsors:
The MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING PROGRAM and The EDUCATION PROGRAM
www.brandeis.edu/programs/mat
For more info:
Please contact 781.736.2022
or email mat@brandeis.edu
www.brandeis.edu/programs/education/news/lampert.html