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Lee anne bell
Professor of Education
The Barbara Silver Horowitz Director of Education
Lee Anne Bell, Professor of Education and The Barbara Silver Horowitz Director of Education, joined Barnard College in 2002. Her teaching specialties include Urban Education; Social Justice Education; and Teaching about Race/Racism through Storytelling and the Arts
Professor Bell's scholarly work centers around issues of gender, race and culture in educational settings and how these impact equity, access and achievement in schools. Her publications focus on research in gender equity among racially diverse girls and women, theoretical and pedagogical work in social justice education, and research on racialization patterns in how "gatekeepers" in education and human services talk about race and racism. Her most recent work involves the Storytelling Project: Learning about Race and Racism through Storytelling and the Arts, supported by a grant from the Third Millennium Foundation. Working with a creative team of artists, academics, public school teachers and Barnard undergraduates, she developed a curriculum and followed its implementation in two urban classrooms. This research is described in two forthcoming articles on the Storytelling Project and a book in progress.
Selected Publications
"Flipping the Script: Analyzing Youth Talk about Race and Racism" (with R. A. Roberts and B. Murphy), Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Forthcoming
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, with M. Adams and P. Griffin, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2007)
"Sincere Fictions: The Pedagogical Challenges of Preparing White Teachers for Multicultural Classrooms," Equity and Excellence in Education 35 (2003)
"Telling Tales: What Stories Can Teach Us about Racism," Race, Ethnicity and Education 6 (2003)
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EDUCATION:
Ed.D., University of Massachusetts/Amherst
M.Ed., University of Hartford
B.A., Indiana University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Equity in urban education
Social justice education theory and pedagogy
Using storytelling and the arts to teach about race and racism