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Toward a cultural understanding of inclusive education

Date: 
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 8:30am to 9:50am
Quarter: 
Fall 2020
Location: 
Virtual

Alfredo Artiles, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education

Alfredo J. Artiles is Professor of Education at Stanford University’s GSE. Dr. Artiles scholarship examines equity paradoxes created by educational policies. For instance, he studies how protections provided by special education can unwittingly stratify educational opportunities for minoritized groups and is advancing responses to these inequities. Dr. Artiles received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Göteborgs (Sweden) and is Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK). He edits the book series Disability, Culture, & Equity (Teachers College Press). He has received various awards that include a 2017 AERA Presidential Citation, the 2017 AERA Review of Research Award, and the 2012 AERA’s Palmer O. Johnson Award. He was a co-author of the consensus study report Fostering the Development and Educational Success of Young Language Learners and Dual Language Learners (Institute of Medicine/National Research Council). Dr. Artiles is an elected member of the National Academy of Education, was elected AERA Vice President to lead its Social Contexts of Education Division and is a Fellow of AERA, the National Education Policy Center, and CASBS. He was a Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow and has received mentoring awards from the Spencer Foundation, AERA, and Arizona State University. Dr. Artiles served on the White House Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.