Other People's Children

 

Lisa D. Delpit is the Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Urban Educational Leadership at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, and also the director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence, whose work focuses on education and race. Dr. Delpit currently works at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, and also the director of the Center for Urban Education and Innovation. She has written numerous books, among them Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom which was published in 1995.

In 1990, Delpit was the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship.

She has also edited and contributed chapters in the book "The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom," published in 2002.

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Research Areas:
Dr. Delpit has won accolades for her work on teaching and learning in urban schools and in diverse cultural settings. She has studied education in both Alaska and New Guinea, published several books, and is a sought-after speaker.  Delpit’s placement as one of the foremost educators and writers on the subject of culturally-relevant approaches to educating students of color began with a series of eloquent, plain-spoken essays in the Harvard Educational Review.  These essays questioned the validity of some popular teaching strategies for African-American students and were eventually spun off into a book titled, Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom.  The book, published in 1995 has been cited for the ongoing debate surrounding what she describes as "finding ways and means to best educate urban students, particularly African-American, and other students of color".

Activities & Honors:
Dr. Lisa Delpit received the award for Outstanding Contribution to Education in 1993 from Harvard Graduate School of Education, which hailed her as a “visionary scholar and woman of courage.” Her work on school-community relations and cross-cultural communication was cited when she received her MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. Delpit has also been selected as the Antioch College Horace Mann Humanity Award recipient for 2003, which recognizes a contribution by alumni of Antioch College who have "won some victory for humanity."

Selected Publications:
• Delpit, Lisa. (1995). Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. NY: New Press.
• Delpit, Lisa. (1998). The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children (co-edited with Theresa Perry). Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
• Delpit, Lisa. (2002). The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom (co-edited with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy). NY: New Press.

 

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