Dr. Joel Westheimer from the University of Ottawa will be delivering a
free public lecture to the university and broader community on Monday,
January 25th, 2010 3:30pm-4:45pm Education Auditorium (U of R) on the
topic of social justice, citizenship, and democracy.  His talk is
provocatively entitled: “No Child Left Thinking: Democracy at Risk in
Canadian Schools” .  

Dr. Westheimer’s bio:
Dr. Joel Westheimer is University Research Chair in the Sociology of
Education and Professor of Education at the University of Ottawa. He is
co-founder and executive director of Democratic Dialogue,
(www.democraticdialogue.com). Westheimer teaches, researches, and
writes on democratic engagement, social justice, activism, service
learning, and community in education. He has published books such as
Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in America's Schools
(2007) which Teacher Magazine called “this year's most important
education book,” What Kind of Citizen? Schools, Civic Education, and
the Promise of Democracy (forthcoming, 2009), and Among Schoolteachers
(1998). He also publishes widely in newspapers, magazines and scholarly
journals and addresses radio and television audiences on shows such as
Good Morning America, More to Life, The Agenda, NBC TV News, C-Span,
NPR, and CBC radio.  Westheimer has received numerous awards including:
the 2009 Canadian Education Association’s Whitworth Award; an award
for Education Research that honours an individual or research
collaboration (research team or organization) who has made a noteworthy
contribution to educational research in Canada, the Daniel E. Griffiths
Award for Excellence in Education Research, the Jason Millman Award, and
Outstanding Research of the Year Award from the American Political
Science Association’s Division on Teaching and Learning.  In 2005, he
was named John Glenn Service Learning Scholar for Social Justice by the
John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy.