CMEI Colloquium
Larsen Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
September 25, 2014
"This land was made for you and me" - what follows? Images, metaphors and narratives move us to action because they frame how we explain our world, what values we hold self-evident, and about what issues we choose to struggle. These are surprisingly culture-specific. How do metaphors and stories fuel civic consciousness and participation? How and when does culture matter?
Speaker Biography:
Helen Haste is the co-convener of CMEI and the principal investigator for the HGSE Spencer Foundation-funded New Civics Early Career Scholars Program. The latter supports currently 24 HGSE doctoral students whose research interests concern civic education and civic engagement. She is coeditor of the journal Political Psychology and was president of the International Society of Political Psychology in 2002. Haste has been chair of the Journal of Moral Education Trust since 2007. For many years she had leadership roles in the British Association for the Advancement of Science including vice president and chair of council. In addition to her current primary appointment as visiting professor at HGSE, she is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Bath, England; a visiting professor at the University of Exeter, England; a senior research fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Education; and an honorary guest professor at the University of Jinan, China.
