Wendy Luttrell
Keynote Speaker
Wendy Luttrell is a
leading authority on how urban American schooling shapes and reinforces
beliefs about race, identity, knowledge, and power. Her first book, Schoolsmart and Motherwise: Working-Class Women’s Identity and Schooling
(1997), the recipient of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the
American Sociological Association (ASA), was based on first-person
accounts of women, both white and African American, who were returning
to the classroom as adult learners. The ASA also recognized Luttrell’s
2003 book Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens
with an Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship Award for its analysis
of how pregnant women and young mothers are educated and the stigmas
they face. More recently, she edited the volume Qualitative Educational Research: Readings in Reflexive Methodology and Transformative Practice (2009).
Luttrell is internationally recognized for her use of visual methodology and a practice she has developed called collaborative seeing in most recent book, Children Framing Childhoods: Working-class Kids’ Visions of Care and its accompanying website (http://www.childrenframingchildhoods.com). The book traces children’s use of photography and video from ages
10, 12, 16, and 18 as a means to explore the roles that gender, race,
class, and immigrant status play in how the young people perceive and
portray their family, school, social, and emotional worlds. One of the
goals of this research is to challenge deficit-oriented views of young
people growing up in urban, low-income families and attending
underresourced schools. Luttrell previously taught at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education and has won accolades for her abilities as
an effective teacher; she is also a highly sought-after lecturer and
speaker. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California,
Santa Cruz.
Additional Resources
Articles
-Children’s Counter narratives of Care: Towards Educational Justice Download pdf
Books
-Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens
-Qualitative Educational Research: Readings in Reflexive Methodology and Transformative Practice
–Children Framing Childhoods: Working-class Kids’ Visions of Care
