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Greg Wiggan is Professor of Urban Education, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, and affiliate faculty member of Africana Studies. His research addresses school effects that promote high achievement in urban and other minoritized students. He has completed more than 100 publications, inclusive of over 30 education books. His work appears in more than 70 countries and over 6,000 college and university libraries (World Cat, 2022). In doing so, his research examines the intersections between diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and student achievement. His most recent titles include: Teacher Education to Enhance Diversity in STEM; The Healing Power of Education; Race, Class, Gender, and Immigrant Identities; The Day Racism Died, among others.
Education Ph.D. - Georgia State University, 2003 M.S - Florida International University, 2000 B.S. - Morris Brown College, 1999 Teaching Critical Issues and Perspectives in Education Globalization, Urbanization, and Urban Schools Power, Privilege and Education Social Deviance, Delinquency and Education Social Stratification and Urban Schools and Community History of Urbanization and Its Impact on Schooling Social Theory and Education Urban Educational School Reform Racial and Ethnic Relations Sociology of Education
Research Interests/Areas of Expertise Urban Education Multicultural Education Comparative and International Education History of Education Diversity and Education Awards & Honors 2015 College of Education Award of Excellence in Teaching
2015 College of Education Award for Diversity
AERA Outstanding Curriculum Book finalist, "Curriculum Violence"
His books include: Global Issues in Education: Pedagogy, Policy, Practice, and the Minority Experience; Education in a Strange Land: Globalization, Urbanization, and Urban Schools –The Social and Educational Implications of the Geopolitical Economy; Curriculum Violence: America’s new Civil Rights Issue; Education for the New Frontier: Race, Education and Triumph in Jim Crow America 1867-1945; Following the Northern Star: Caribbean Identities and Education in North American Schools; Unshackled: Education for Freedom, Student achievement, and Personal emancipation;In Search of a Canon: European History and the Imperialist State; Last of the Black Titans: The role of Historically Black Colleges and University in the 21st Century; and Dreaming of a Place called Home: Local and International Perspectives on Teacher Education and School Diversity.
2013 by Erhabor Ighodaro (Author), Greg Wiggan (Author)
This book examines the historical context of African Americans' educational experiences, and it provides information that helps to assess the dominant discourse on education, which emphasises White middle-class cultural values and standardisation of students' outcomes. Curriculum violence is defined as the deliberate manipulation of academic programming in a manner that ignores or compromises the intellectual and psychological well being of learners. Related to this are the issues of assessment and the current focus on high-stakes standardised testing in schools, where most teachers are forced to teach for the test.
Race, Class, Gender, and Immigrant Identities in Education Perspectives from First and Second Generation Ethiopian Students
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Shame that such a smart guy like Dr. Wiggan can endorse nonsense like the African Olmec hypothesis. I guess it goes to show you that we all have our intellectual blind spots.
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this is not addressed to Brandon specifically though its right after his post (no relation) but to everybody including: please keep this thread about this professor and the retraction. I don't want this thread to turn into a general discussion on if the Olmecs were Africans or not with big quotes and pic. We have many other threads for that, those can be URL Linked, thanks
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Here is a pod where this paper (and other related things) is discussed.
One of the hosts, Kurly Tlapoyawa is a Native American archaeologist and ethnohistorian. The other one, Ruben Arellano Tlakatekatl is a scholar, activist, and professor of history.
The pod hosts wrote a letter to the Urban Review which was instrumental in the journals decision to retract the article.
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See how toxic they are ? Then they ask me why I'm so harsh with them. They go as far as trying to claim amerindians and see how they try to sneak their pseudo scientific theories in the academic field.
this doesn't play in favor of proper AA scholars who already warned us about those toxic "movements" :
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The sad part is that it taints real Africana studies, and in the eyes of the lay person makes African focused history nothing but a joke.
quote:Originally posted by BrandonP: Shame that such a smart guy like Dr. Wiggan can endorse nonsense like the African Olmec hypothesis. I guess it goes to show you that we all have our intellectual blind spots.
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Here is the letter from Kurly Tlapoyawa and Ruben A. Arellano Tlakatekatl which was instrumental in making the Urban Review retract Wiggan et al´s article (the letter is also read out loud in their pod).
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