"The Threads of Learning and Democracy in Classroom Talk" presented by 2008 UIUC College of Education Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient Peter H. Johnston of State University of New York at Albany

Date	April 11, 2008
Time	12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location	210A Education Building
Sponsor	2008 UIUC College of Education Distinguished Alumni Award Committee
Description	Peter H. Johnston is a 1981 PhD graduate of the Department of Educational Psychology. The language we use in the classroom affects children's learning in fundamental ways. It affects the ways they interact with and value each other and their diversity, the kinds of literacies they develop, and who they become as literate individuals. This talk describes the kinds of classroom talk that change children's worlds.