With speaker Rev. Jonathan Betts Fields, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Malden, MA
Discussant: Bryan McAllister-Grande, Ed.D. 2017, HGSE, New Civics Early Career Scholar
April 4, 2018

CMEI Colloquium
Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
October 5, 2017

... Read more about The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness in Contexts of Political Rupture

CMEI Colloquium
Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education
April 26, 2011

... Read more about Fostering and Measuring Historical Understanding, Ethical Awareness and Civic Learning: What are We Learning from an Experimental Evaluation of Facing History and Ourselves

CMEI Colloquium
Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
November 1, 2012

... Read more about Character Compass: Building Powerful School Culture and Student Success Through Character Education

CMEI Colloquium
Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education
November 14, 2012

... Read more about Old Scars, New Wounds: Youth, Inequality and Restitution in South Africa

CMEI Colloquium
Larsen Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
September 23, 2013

... Read more about Institutional Violence and the Maintenance of Status Boundaries: A Social Dominance Perspective

CMEI Colloquium
Larsen Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
February 12, 2014

On four occasions I taught a course called Race and Racism at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, and...

CMEI Colloquium
Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
February 25, 2014

Educators and policy makers are responsible for enacting justice, but often face situations in which there...

CMEI Colloquium
Larsen Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
April 15, 2014

Learning is a universal human capacity and activity. However, Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning. These beliefs influence how they approach learning, childrearing, and education. What are the different beliefs and why are they so different? Based on decades of research, Dr. Li has advanced a conceptual distinction between the Western mind-model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. The former aims at cultivating the mind to...

CMEI Dialogue
Larsen Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
October 23, 2014

From his forthcoming book, ...

CMEI Colloquium
Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education
April 3, 2015

Educating values and preparing citizens are particularly important at a time of China's rapid expansion. How do...

CMEI Colloquium
Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education
September 16 2015

If you ever find yourself next to the switch for an out-of-control trolley that is hurtling toward people tied to the track, you can turn to moral philosophy for exquisitely detailed advice about what direction you should guide the trolley. If you ever find yourself in a classroom with out-of-control students who desperately need your guidance, however, moral philosophy is far more likely to leave you hanging. You're on your own. The same is true if...

CMEI Colloquium
Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
November 19, 2015

Sociopolitical development (SPD) refers to the processes by which an individual acquires the...

CMEI Colloquium 
Larsen Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
March 31, 2016

The history of character education in the U.S. is long and convoluted, leading to many different "flavors" and many misconceptions. This presentation presented a model of character education that is primarily focused on positive, pro-social, and democratic development, providing both a rationale for this work and a circumscribed definition. It relied on research to identify common denominator parenting and pedagogical factors that effectively promote such...

CMEI Colloquium
Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
September 19, 2016

The words “And Crown thy Good with Brotherhood from Sea to Shining Sea” marked the beginning of the end of the Indian wars, and provides the backdrop for a discussion of the tension between the goals of citizenship education—to train the sentiments—and the goals of civic education—to pay homage to the truth.... Read more about Can Citizenship Education Survive Civics?