March Newsletter: Education Program

The Gottesman Libraries Education Program informs students, faculty and staff about the latest thinking in education, in ways that engage members of the community with one another and with a broad range of educational experts. The program also provides understanding of work being done throughout the College. 

Read more below about offerings in March.

Workshops

Regularly scheduled instructional offerings include workshops, tours, orientations, and course-specific instruction in coordination with staff and faculty of the College.

Your Research Journey is a five-part library workshop series to help guide you in your research throughout the semester, by providing you with manageable tools and resources to use along your journey. Whether this is your first time conducting research, or you are a well-seasoned researcher and looking for a refresher, each workshop introduces fundamental information to lay a foundation of knowledge on which you can build your scholarly work. While the workshops in this series are designed to build upon each other, you are welcome to attend any workshop individually. All are held on Wednesdays, 3-4pm.

Elevate Your Research builds upon the foundational series, Your Research Journey, by presenting valuable new topics, resources, and methodologies to make you an even stronger and highly proficient researcher. Held on Thursdays, 3-4pm, this series also invites deeper, collaborative work to strengthen academic research initiatives.

 

Charting Your Path, Wednesday, 3/1, 3-4pm

Graduate school research may feel daunting, but this foundational workshop will address the key concepts, strategies, and tools to help develop your research skills.  Charting Your Path will start with a broad overview of what library research can look like, including the terms you may come across in your journey. We will also cover how to use Gottesman Libraries and the Columbia University Libraries to access physical and digital resources; discuss reference management tools; show how to create strong keyword searches; and end with a review of strategies for better search results. Attendees will leave this workshop with the information needed to be successful in Library research across all research disciplines.
Presenter: Becca Gates, Research and Instruction Librarian

Please rsvp with your interest and details by Tuesday, February 28th.

Where: 101 Russell /Online

 

Managing Your Citations with Zotero, Wednesday, 3/8, 3-4pm

Managing Your References: Zotero provides a quick start introduction including: downloading; tour of the interface;  nuts and bolts of how to ingest references through a web connector; and different ways of citing. This workshop will be followed by others in the Elevate Your Research series, offering more advanced features of Zotero and introductory sessions for Endnote and Mendeley -- all within ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Frames.

Presenter: Becca Gates, Research and Instruction Librarian

Please rsvp with your interest and details by Tuesday, March 7th.

Where: 101 Russell / Online

 

Using MeSH Terms, Thursday, 3/9, 3-4pm

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is a controlled vocabulary developed by the United States National Library of Medicine. It is used by many important databases such as  PubMed, MedLine, APA PsychInfo, and CINAHL to classify the articles they index.  

At the end of this workshop participants will know how the MeSH controlled vocabulary works and leave with strategies for using the terms to enhance their search results. We will also cover the differences in how each of the major life science databases incorporate MeSH into their indexing. 

Presenter: Ralph Baylor, Head of Reference and Reader Services

Please rsvp by Wednesday, March 8th with your interest and details.

Where: 101 Russell / Online

 

Advanced Searching Strategies, Wednesday, 3/22, 3-4pm

How do you know you are retrieving all the relevant information needed for your research topic? Do you find your catalog and database searches are not giving you the best results? This workshop will cover the strategies and concepts needed to give you confidence that you are finding the best results in your searches and take you beyond conducting simple searches by using tools to search in a variety of contexts. The workshop host will review how to use Educat+, the catalog of the Gottesman Libraries; CLIO, the Columbia University Libraries catalog; and database providers, like EBSCO and Proquest. We will then show how you can optimize your queries by using Boolean logic and punctuation to refine your search style and retrieve exactly the resources you seek.

Presenter: Becca Gates, Research and Instruction Librarian

Please rsvp with your interest and details by Tuesday, March 21st

 Where: 101 Russell /Online

 

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 Talks

The Gottesman Libraries sponsors talks by leaders in education, psychology, and the applied health sciences to recognize and celebrate scholarly work of interest to the Teachers College community.

 

Book Club:  The Dragons, the Giant, the Women, by Wayétu Moore

"When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally, a rebel soldier smuggles them across the border to Sierra Leone, reuniting the family and setting them off on yet another journey, this time to the United States.

Spanning this harrowing journey in Moore’s early childhood, her years adjusting to life in Texas as a black woman and an immigrant, and her eventual return to Liberia, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women is a deeply moving story of the search for home in the midst of upheaval. Moore has a novelist’s eye for suspense and emotional depth, and this unforgettable memoir is full of imaginative, lyrical flights and lush prose. In capturing both the hazy magic and the stark realities of what is becoming an increasingly pervasive experience, Moore shines a light on the great political and personal forces that continue to affect many migrants around the world, and calls us all to acknowledge the tenacious power of love and family."
-- Publisher's Description

 

Wayétu Moore is the author of She Would Be King, released by Graywolf Press in September, 2018. Her memoir, The Dragons, The Giant, The Women was also released with Graywolf on June 2, 2020. She is the recipient of the 2019 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction.

 She Would Be King was named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly & BuzzFeed. The novel was a Sarah Jessica Parker Book Club selection, a BEA Buzz Panel Book, a #1 Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award. The Dragons, The Giant, The Women was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book, Time Magazine 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020, Publishers Weekly Top 5 Nonfiction Books of 2020, was longlisted for the ALA Andrew Carnegie medal for excellence in nonfiction, and is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Moore is the founder of One Moore Book, a non-profit organization that creates and distributes culturally relevant books for underrepresented readers. Her first bookstore opened in Monrovia, Liberia in 2015.Her writing can be found in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Frieze Magazine, Guernica, The Atlantic Magazine and other publications. She has been featured in The Economist Magazine, NPR and Vogue Magazine, among others, for her work in advocacy for diverse children’s literature.

Part One, Tuesday, 3/7, 12-1pm

Please rsvp by Monday, March 6th with your interest and details, and come ready to discuss Part One, "Rainy Season" of The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir (Chapter 1-10; pp. 1-98 ). Participants are encouraged to bring their lunches; simple refreshments will be provided.

Where: 305 Russell

Part Two, Tuesday, 3/21, 12-1pm

Please rsvp by Monday, March 20th with your interest and details, and come ready to discuss "Dry Season" or Part Two of The Dragons, the Giant, the Women (Chapters 12-18, pp. 101-171). Participants are encouraged to bring their lunches; simple refreshments will be provided.

Where: 305 Russell

 

Why not enrich learning outside the classroom, meet fellow readers, and enjoy conversation on stimulating memoirs of relevance to programs at Teachers College?

Spring Bookclub is co-sponsored by the Graduate Writing Center. It meets every other week throughout the semester, with a program for three books, three sessions per book. It is open to all students and staff, and the first 15 people to rsvp will receive a free copy. 

 

Guest Talk: [mode] of black joy, with André Brock, Wednesday, 3/8, 2-3:30pm

Please join us for a talk entitled "[mode] of black joy" with Dr. André Brock for the first colloqium of the Spring 2023 semester co-sponsored by the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME).

André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Institute of Technology. His scholarship examines racial representations in social media, videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, and technoculture, including innovative and groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. His  book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (New York University Press, 2020) offers insights to understanding Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies. Dr. Brock has an M.A. in English and Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation is entitled, Race, the Internet, and the Hurricane: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Black Identity Online During the Aftermath of Hurricane Aatrina.

Persons interested in attending may register in person or for the webinar.

Where: 306 Russell / Online

 

Book Talks:

Toward Community-Based Learning: Experiences from the U.S.A., India, and China, with Eija Kimonen, Aimo Nevalainen, and Contributors, Thursday, 3/9, 2-3pm

Please join us for a discussion of Toward Community-Based Learning: Experiences from the U.S.A., India, and China (Leiden, Boston: Brill Sense, 2020), edited by Eija Kimonen and Raimo Nevalainen, and part of the series, Urban Education, Cultures, and Communities, edited by Christopher Emden (Teachers College, Columbia University) and Edmund Adjapong (Seton Hall University).

Toward Community-Based Learning contends that the ideal school offers the opportunity to understand reality in a way that connects teaching and education with conditions in the surrounding community and the student’s life and concerns. This view holds that problem solving requires an understanding and awareness of the whole, which can be achieved through direct activities. In this manner, learning is linked to its natural context, with ideal instruction being actively problem-oriented, holistic, and life- centered. This thought-provoking volume offers an essential and comprehensive picture of community-based learning in the field of education. The book deals with the history of community-based learning as well as its present applications, including its global successes and difficulties. The authors provide numerous pedagogical approaches that are designed to meet the challenges of contemporary education. They show how learning is connected with authentic community environments in which students can gain new understandings through solving emerging problems. They also demonstrate how teachers can make learning more functional and holistic so that students have the ability to work in new situations within the complex world around them. School-specific descriptions reveal how teachers and their students have implemented community-based projects in the U.S.A., India, and China at diferent times.

Contributors are: Thomas L. Alsbury, Mary Ewans, Linda Hargreaves, Susan K. Johnsen, Eija Kimonen, Susan Kobashigawa, Karon N. LeCompte, Suzanne M. Nesmith, Raimo Nevalainen, and Lakia M. Scott.

Speaker Bios:

Thomas L. Alsbury is Professor of Educational Leadership at Northwest University. His research interests include school board governance, organizational theory, and school district reform. Recent publications include an article in the journal Research in Educational Administration & Leadership (Vol. 3, 2018). He is editor of the volume The Future of School Board Governance: Relevancy and Revelation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) and co-editor with Phil Gore of the book Improving School Board Effectiveness: A Balanced Governance Approach (Harvard, 2015). Prior to his academic career, Alsbury served almost 20 years as a high school teacher, K–12 principal, and district administrator.

Susan K. Johnsen is Professor Emerita in the Department of Educational Psychology at Baylor University. She is editor in chief of Gifted Child Today and the author of more than 300 articles, monographs, technical reports, chapters, and other publications related to gifted education. Johnsen has written three tests used in identifying gifted students: Test of Mathematical Abilities for Gifted Students, Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, and Screening Assessment Gifted Students. She has received awards for her work in the field of education, including the National Association for Gifted Children’s Ann F. Isaacs Founder’s Memorial Award and the Council for Exceptional Children’s Leadership Award. Her research interests focus on assessment, standards, and serving gifted students from diverse populations.

Eija Kimonen is Senior Researcher with the RICEI Project at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. This project studies international educational reforms carried out in the United States, Russia, China, and India in a comparative context. She is also Adjunct Professor of Intercultural and Comparative Education at the Northeast Normal University in China. Her research interests include the interplay between education and society generally, and reform pedagogics, outdoor education, and work-based education more specifically. She has co-edited and published books on reform pedagogics in the U.S.A., India, and China, including Education and Society in Comparative Context (Sense, 2015), Reforming Teaching and Teacher Education (Sense, 2017), Toward Community-Based Learning (Brill 2020), and Students Learning in Communities (Brill, 2022).

Raimo Nevalainen is a researcher at the Research for International Comparison of Educational Innovations (RICEI) Project at the University of Jyväskylä. He has served almost 35 years as a lecture in the University Teacher Training School. Along with his research work, he has presented his studies around the world, particularly in the United States, India, and China. His research interests include active learning, curriculum change, teacher professionalism, teacher competencies, and teacher social participation in the process of community education. He is a co-editor with Eija Kimonen of the volumes Transforming Teachers’ Work Globally (Sense, 2013), Reforming Teaching and Teacher Education (Sense, 2017), and Toward Community-Based Learning (Brill, 2020). His most recent book with Eija Kimonen Students Learning in Communities: Ideas and Practices from the U.S.A., India, Russia, and China (Brill) was published 2022.

Please rsvp with your interest and details by Wednesday, March 8th and a Teams link will be shared.

 Where: Online

 

Teaching on Days After, with Alyssa Hadley Dunn, Tuesday, 3/21, 4-5pm

Please join Alyssa Hadley Dunn for a discussion of her new book, Teaching on Days After: Educating for Equity on the Wake of Injustice (New York: Teachers College Press, 2021).

Dr. Alyssa Hadley Dunn is the Director of Teacher Education for the Neag School of Education and an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. A former high school English teacher, Dr. Dunn now focuses her teaching, research, and service on urban education for social and racial justice. She studies how to best prepare and support teachers to work in urban schools and how to teach for justice and equity amidst school policies and reforms that negatively impact teachers’ working conditions and students’ learning conditions. Prior to coming to UConn, she was an Associate Professor at Michigan State University and an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University. She is the author of three award-winning books: Teaching on Days After: Educating for Equity in the Wake of Injustice (Teachers College Press, 2021); Teachers Without Borders?: The Hidden Consequences of International Teachers in U.S. Schools (Teachers College Press, 2013); and Urban Teaching in America (Sage Publications, 2011) . She has published dozens of articles in journals such as the American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Urban Education, and Teaching and Teacher Education. A committed public scholar, she has been a contributor to the Huffington Post and National Public Radio. Among other awards, Dr. Dunn is the winner of the Critical Educators for Social Justice Revolutionary Mentor Award from the American Educational Research Association and Michigan State University’s Teacher-Scholar of the Year Award.

This book talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. Daniel Friedrich, Associate Professor of Curriculum, will welcome guests and moderate the Q&A.

Please rsvp with your interest, details, and preferred attendance by Monday, March 20th.

 Where: 306 Russell

 

Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education, with Rebecca Natow, Wednesday, 3/22, 4-5:30pm

Please join us for a conversation with Rebecca S. Natow, author of Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector (New York: Teachers College Press, 2022). This book "provides a comprehensive description of the federal government’s relationship with higher education and how that relationship became so expansive and indispensable over time. Drawing from constitutional law, social science research, federal policy documents, and original interviews with key policy insiders, the author explores the U.S. government’s role in regulating, financing, and otherwise influencing higher education. Natow analyzes how the government’s role has evolved over time, the activities of specific governmental branches and agencies that affect higher education, the nature of the government’s influence today, and prospects for the future of federal involvement in higher education. Chapters examine the politics and practices that shape policies affecting nondiscrimination and civil rights, student financial aid, educational quality and student success, campus crime, research and development, intellectual property, student privacy, and more."

-- Publisher's Description

Rebecca S. Natow is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at Hofstra University. She is an expert in higher education policy and qualitative research methods. Dr. Natow has researched and written about federal and state higher education policies and policymaking processes and is author or coauthor of numerous writings including books, working papers, and scholarly articles. She is also the author of Higher Education Rulemaking: The Politics of Creating Regulatory Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press). Dr. Natow previously served as a senior research associate for TC’s Community College Research Center and is a graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University.

This book talk is co-sponsored by the Teachers College Office of Governmental Relations.

Persons interested in attending are encouraged to rsvp by Tuesday, March 21st with their details.

Where: 306 Russell

 

The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction, with Scott Stroud and Panelists, Thursday, 3/30, 11:30am-1pm

"In The Evolution of Pragmatism in India, Scott R. Stroud delivers a comprehensive exploration of the influence of John Dewey’s pragmatism on Bhimrao Ambedkar, architect of the Republic of India’s constitution. Stroud traces Ambedkar’s development in Dewey’s Columbia University classes in 1913–1916 through his final years in 1950s India when he rewrote the story of Buddhism. Stroud examines pragmatism’s influence not only on the philosophical ideas underpinning Ambedkar’s fight against caste oppression but also how his persuasive techniques drew on pragmatism’s commitment to reconstruction and meliorism. At the same time, Stroud is careful to point out the ways that Ambedkar pushed back against Dewey’s paradigm and developed his own approach to challenges in India. The result is a nuanced study of one of the most important figures in Indian history."

-- publisher's description

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Many know that Bhimrao Ambedkar, chief architect of India's constitution and powerful proponent of rights and respect for India's most oppressed, thought highly of his former teacher, John Dewey. In this talk, Dr. Scott R. Stroud discusses the themes of his book, The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction (University of Chicago Press, March 2023), detailing their educational and intellectual relationship and Amdedkar's appropriation of Deweyan concepts and methods to forge a new vision of pragmatism.

Scott R. Stroud is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and program director for media ethics at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatis, Aesthetics, and Morality and Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric, as well as the co-founder of India’s first Center for Dewey Studies at Savitribai Phule Pune University. 

Dr. Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education Policy, will welcome guests; introduce the author Scott Stroud; and moderate the panel discussion on Ambedkar's legacy for the right to education of all disenfranchised groups, in particular, the Dalit minority in Southeast Asia. Panelists include:

• Bishnu Maya Pariya, Founding President of Adwan, Nepal / USA
• Vikas Tadad, Senator for International and Transcultural Studies; Chair of the Policy and Rules Committee, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Monalisa Barman, Policy Analyst, Quantitatve and Qualitative Researcher, and Human Rights Advocate

This book talk / international symopsium includes a live musical performance, and is co-sponsored by the Teachers College, Columbia University Department of International and Transcultural Studies; Columbia University Global Studies Center; Norrag; and EKLAVYA, among numerous additional organizations.

Persons wishing to attend may rsvp with their interest and details by Tuesday, March 28th. You may attend in person or by webinar and listen to the short testimonies on Ambedkar and his legacy for today's right to education.

Where: Milbank Chapel 

 

Artivism

The vision of Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation is to generate a movement with committed social artivists in response to historic global unrest. Artivism aims to generate community through multi-disciplinary teamwork for a more dignified and meaningful coexistence, however you define these terms. The goal of this initiative is to nurture confidence in taking continuous action from wherever you are by means of reciprocity.

 

An Inspirational Flight!, with Polly Ferman, Monday, 3/6, 4:30-5:30pm

An advocate for Latin culture, its race and gender equality, as well as an educator and musician, Polly Ferman will share the importance of discovering our love for the arts and how to make it the soul of our life -- to find the essence of generosity, as opposed to competition with our colleagues. 

Polly Ferman is the founder and artistic director of Pan American Musical Art Research, a 501(c3) organization she founded in 1984 to promote awareness of and appreciation for the cultures of Latin America. In 2006, Ferman founded the Latin American Cultural Week in New York City ( LACW), an annual festival. Ferman also established, directs and performs in GlamourTango, EL TANGO HECHO MUJER, a unique all-female international multimedia music and dance show, the ultimate homage to Women’s Empowerment.  

Register here.

Where: Online

Resources:

pamar.org

http://lacw.net

https://www.glamourtango.com

 

Festival of Cinema NYC: Creating a World Class Film Festival to Inspire Social Transformation, with Jayson Simba, Monday, 3/13, 4:30-5:30pm

Founder and Executive Director Jayson Simba will speak about the journey and the challenges of putting together a film festival that can effectively inspire change for social transformation. Resources will include The Asian American Film Lab, ArteEaste, and America’s Media Initiative.

Register here.

Where: Online

Resource:

Festival of Cinema

 

Art To The People: How to Help Our Communities Heal Through Creative Wellness Practices, with Zoë Lintzeris, Monday, 3/20, 4:40-5:30pm

This talk explores how one artist returned to her hometown and created the city’s first Arts in Health workshop experience, assessing how mindfulness and art work together to help individuals express their emotions healthfully and to rebuild stronger communities, particularly in COVID-19.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Zoë Lintzeris is a visual artist working in painting and photography. Founded on her previous work in journalism, her artwork explores the human condition and the emotional psyche through a minimalist lens. Her pieces reside in private collections throughout North America and Europe and have been exhibited in installations at galleries and creative spaces including 222 Bowery, Clover’s Fine Art Gallery, Greenpoint Gallery, Maryland Art Place, and Point Green Studios. From 2017-2019 in New York City, she held three solo shows highlighting her conceptual-documentary photo work and marked her first solo show in Baltimore in 2022. Since 2018, Zoë teaches Arts in Health practices in personal sessions and workshops, and regularly speaks on the intersection of the arts and well-being. She holds a graduate certificate in Arts in Health and works with the International Arts + Mind Lab: Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University School for Medicine. She is developing the world’s first Arts in Health residency and retreat space in Greece and looks forward to helping artists and creatives from all over the world.

Register here.

Where: Online

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 Artivism: The Power of Art Social Transformation, grew out of Illuminations of Social Imagination: Learning From Maxine Greene, (Dio Press, 2019), edited by Teachers College alumni Courtney Weida and Carolina Cambronero-Varela, and Dolapo Adeniji-Neill, of Adelphi University. "The concept for this book is inspired by the late Maxine Greene (2000), who described her enduring philosophical focus and legacy of social imagination as “the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what might be in our deficient society, on the streets where we live, in our schools” (p. 5). The purpose of this volume is to examine and illuminate the roles of community organizers and educators who are changing lives through public art and community arts projects. This research originally emerged from a well-attended 2018 conference presentation and exhibition at Teachers College, Columbia University, engaging with the local and international community of arts education and arts administration."

-- Publisher's Description

 Artivism: The Power of Art Social Transformation is jointly sponsored by Adelphi University, Sing for Hope, and the Gottesman Libraries.

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Highlighted Databases: Special Education

 March is recognized as National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month -- dating back to February 26, 1987 when Ronald Regan through presidential proclamation sought to increase public awareness of and needs for persons with impairments in physical, learning, language or behavior areas. In the preceding two years, the U.S. Employment Initiative resulted in job opportunities for more than 87,000 people with developmental disabilities, allowing them brighter prospects, fuller potential, and more productive lives, while efforts also addressed needs in schools. Read more on the Library's news feed.

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 Live Music

The Everett Cafe Music Program sponsors performances by TC student and affiliated musicians. Come enjoy a variety of genres and styles! Please contact us if you are interested in playing! We welcome solos, duets, and trios.

 

Nicholas DiMaria Trio, Monday, 3/6, 4-5pm

Nicholas DiMaria is a trumpeter, teacher, and composer based in New York City. He draws inspiration from multiple genres and art forms in his compositions and is continuously inspired by expressing visual art in a musical medium. His music is described by audiences as introspective, passionate, and eclectic; influenced by jazz, hip-hop, and classical music.

Nicholas has lead groups at Carnegie Hall, The Northeast Wine and Jazz Festival, The Syracuse Jazz Festival, The Central New York Pride Festival, and restaurants and clubs across New York State. He has also performed at The Great New York State Fair, The CNY January Jazz Festival, the Disneyland All-American College Band, and opened for Grammy-Winner Lalah Hathaway. Nicholas is well-adapted to playing with jazz ensembles, wedding bands, and funk groups. He currently holds a weekly performance residency at Oliva Tapas, NYC (Thursdays and Fridays from 6-8pm). Nicholas is also a faculty member at Larchmont Music Academy, where he teaches trumpet and a jazz ensemble. In 2020, he received his Bachelor's in Jazz Arts from Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Scott Wendholt, Ingrid Jensen, Jim McNeely, and Jon Faddis.

 

Claremont Strings and Ensemble, Wednesday, 3/29

Come enjoy some Spring music!

Claremont Strings and Ensemble features music for classical strings, from the symphonies of Mozart and Haydn, to well known arias from the operas of Puccini and Bizet. You may hear a selection of continental Viennese waltzes and French cabaret. Musicians of The Claremont Strings Ensemble have performed collectively at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and throughout the Northeast, playing a diverse range of symphonic and chamber music, eclectic jazz, and gypsy swing. Wadsworth Strings, emanating from the Washington Heights area, is a division of Claremont Strings, founded by Vivian Penham, a graduate of the Juilliard School and Columbia University.

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 News Displays

Need to keep current, look to the past, teach a topic? The Everett Cafe features daily postings of news from around the world, and also promotes awareness of historical events from an educational context. Be sure to check the Cafe News postings on the library blog.

 Helen Keller Meets Anne Sullivan, Friday, 3/3

Riots and Strikes in Petrograd: February Revolution, Wednesday, 3/8

Marion Vera Cuthbert Is Born, Wednesday, 3/15

Uncle Tom's Cabin Is Published, Monday, 3/20

Cigarette Smoking Is Banned in Public Places in New York, Thursday, 3/30

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 Book Displays

 We curate collections to encourage reading, use of library resources, and awareness of interesting, relevant themes. Book displays are hosted in Everett Cafe and the second floor collaboration space throughout the year and support programs of the College, as well as the Gottesman Libraries' Education Program.

 

Everett Cafe:  Embodied Learning & Hybrid Space

"We felt it. The pandemic shifted the collective bodily rhythms and habits of learning abruptly into different forms, forms determined largely by what we could call the technical stack. The addressability of email, the multi-modality of the web, the sight of our own streaming self on a screen, and so on, were not new, however. What was new was the way we felt their impact. “Zoom fatigue” gave name to just a small part of a deeper condition. But what we might also be learning is that this is part of a much longer question. What are we learning to do with our bodies when we learn? These selected books speak, in different ways, to relationships among bodies, learning, and technology. Hyper-text did not begin with the internet. Texts have always been about linking across themselves in different ways, but also between and across the bodies that read and write them."

Embodied Learning and Hybrid Space is designed by the Gottesman Libraries and co-curated with Chris Moffett. It accompanies the installation S-Portals:Superpositions in Stream Space on the second floor.

At Everett Cafe you'll find a new book collection every few weeks that relates to current events, education, or learning environments.

 

March Staff Picks: Better Parenting

"Parents have the most significant impact on children’s personalities. They have a great deal of influence on the way their children’s lives turn out. Parents always have the highest interests of their children at heart, and they strive to do what they can to make that happen. Often, what they think will be helpful for their children ends up doing more harm than help. Although there might not be a ready-made formula for raising children correctly, some approaches are certainly more beneficial than others.

Better Parenting covers a collection of books that will help you discover more about your child, your parents, and yourself both as a child and a parent. These books will guide you through what to do and what not to do while raising kids and how to raise them healthier and happier. You will be able to understand what children need from their parents and how to be there for them in the most effective way possible. I hope these books act not just as a knowledge resource for you, but also allow you to reflect upon your childhood and understand your parents better. I have also included some children’s books that will remind you of your childhood memories spent with your parents and how special our mothers and fathers are. I hope these books will take you down the memory lane of your childhood and make you cherish the special bond that parents and children share."

-- Arunika Sharma, Library Associate

 Better Parenting is curated by Arunika Sharma and designed by Emily Sang.

Staff Picks is curated and designed each month by the Gottesman Libraries' staff to highlight resources on educational topics and themes of special interest.

 Where: Reading Room, Second Floor

 

New and Now: Award-Winning Children's Literature

Looking for a new read? Integrating exciting titles into your lesson plans? Building a curriculum for today's young learners? Blast off with the latest and greatest! Books on our "Rocketship" shelves are all award-winning and honoree titles for children's, middle grade, and young adult readers to bring into your orbit.

Where: Reading Room, Second Floor

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 Exhibits

S-Portals: Superpositions in Stream Space, extended through March

"As we are increasingly asked to live in the overlap between physical and digital spaces, what is it that we are learning to do and be? S-Portals: Superpositions in Stream Space invites us to play with the potentiality of spontaneous encounters in a fleeting hybrid-public space.

This interactive installation projects and superimposes the silhouettes of visitors in different locations of the library into a shared virtual space: Here and there, there and here."

-- Artists' Statement

Chris Moffett, Ph.D., is an artist and scholar working across the fields of philosophy, education, art and technology. His current research centers on embodied practice in education, play and diagramming. Current projects include early-childhood play in Anji, China; walking as an aesthetic practice, with Art Education students in Guangzhou, China; a somatic learning lab; and an experimental gestural reading group between North America and Northern Europe. He is a research scholar at the Digital Futures Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Lucius Von Joo is an Instructor of Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a doctoral student of Communication and Education and holds an EdM in Comparative and International Education. Lucius has teaching experience in deaf education, elementary and tertiary education, and EFL/ESL in California, Japan, and New York. His research interests include cultural anthropology, social neuroscience, CALL, film, and documentary content-based learning, media studies, video-cued multivocal ethnography, and most importantly all things Adventure Playground and Repair Cafe.

This interactive installation is co-sponsored by the Digital Futures Institute and will be on exhibit through February. It accompanies the co-curated Everett Cafe book display, Embodied Learning and Hybrid Space, which to speaks to relationships among bodies, learning, and technology.

Where: Collaboration Space, Second Floor

 

Ukrainian Children's Art from the 1930s: Educating for Citizenship, through March

 In the 1920s and 1930s George S. Counts, Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, traveled to the Soviet Union to collect primary sources for his research on Soviet education; his publications included: The New Education in the Soviet Republic (1929); A Ford Crosses Soviet Russia (1930); New Russia’s Primer (1931); The Soviet Challenge to America (1931); Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (1932); and The Social Foundations of Education (1934). The materials added to the Library’s collections by Counts and his colleagues in the International Institute of Education included representative drawings and paintings by Ukrainian children; in 1935 they arranged an exhibition at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History that was accompanied by a set of photographs depicting school activities in Ukraine. The text prepared by Soviet educators described how art would “unite the child… with the political life and the great socialistic construction of the Country.”  In the Fall of 1999, the artwork and photographs were exhibited in the former Milbank Memorial Library of Teachers College, Columbia University with an official statement of the “socialist” philosophy of art education.

The Ukrainian Children’s Art Collection consists of 26 works created in the 1930s by art students aged 8-15. Typical in their socialist content, as well as form, they illustrate principles of both art education and civic training, and provide a unique view of distinctive features of Soviet education. Socialist realism over self expression is seen as the guiding Soviet artistic method. Daily routines are represented in heroic tones, with art showing how the “illuminated future” is being made, and re-made. In 1991 came the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and from 2014 onward, the Russo-Ukrainian War, with major escalation due to the full-scale invasion by Russia of Ukraine in February 2022.

This exhibit relates directly to the historical relationship between Teachers College and education in Ukraine in the mid 1930s -- a time when Ukraine was an integral part of the Soviet Union. The contents of this exhibit are thus seen through this lens, but with sensitivity to the tragic events in more recent history. Please see the recent Everett Cafe book display, Ukraine: Tracking the Journey of the Sun Across the Sky, which explores the broader history and socio-political context.

This exhibit is funded through the generosity of the Myers Foundations.

Where: Offit Gallery, Third Floor