University NewsUniversity NewsAlicante, 25th January 2012
On the proposal of the Faculty of Education
Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Linda Darling-Hammond and Gloria Ladson-Billings will be awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Alicante to mark Saint Thomas Aquinas Festival, which will be held on Friday, 27th January, at 12 noon, in the UA Auditorium..
This is how it was approved by the University of Alicante's Governing Council, on the proposal of the Faculty of Education and they will be conferred their honorary degrees by the UA President, Ignacio Jiménez Raneda, in an academic ceremony in which the delivery of University of Alicante's doctoral special awards, graduate awards, architecture and engineering awards as well as diploma awards will take place, as traditionally.
The Faculty of Education Dean and lecturer in General & Specific Teaching Methods, Mª Ángeles Martínez Ruiz, will act as the godmother of this three new honorary doctors and will give the laudatio of these three new confernments. Once the laudatio is finished, the confernments ceremony will take place, followed by the corresponding spechees of the three new honorees.
Finally, after the academic ceremony, the University of Alicante's special doctoral awards, graduate, architecture and engineering awards, as well as diploma awards will be hended out.
The ceremony will be live broadcast here: https://zebra.cpd.ua.es/paraninfo
BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE OF THE NEW HONORARY DOCTORS
MARILYN COCHRAN-SMITH
Dr. Marilyn Cochran-Smith, is responsible for the Chair J. E. Cawthorne of Teacher Education for Urban Schools, en la Lynch School of Education del Boston College, for the Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction and has also participated in numerous projects of highly scientific impact. Consistent with this powerful professional activity, she has won plenty of awards and prizes. She was named a member of the National Academy of Education and President of the American Educational Research Association, AERA. Also, she has received the D. Imig Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teacher Education, el Pomeroy Award, the Margaret Lindsey Award, the Outstanding Writing Award in two editions, the AERA’s Research to Practice Award, the National Association of Multicultural Education’s Research Award, and the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education’s Impact Award, among others. In her prolific work as an author and editor of relevant publications, she deserves to be reviewed, in a special way, for her contribution as an editor of the Journal of Teacher Education for her essential contribution to the advancement of teachers' education.
LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND
Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond holds the Chair C. E. Ducommun Professor of Education, at the University of Stanford, where her leadership is outstanding at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, at the School Redesign Network and at the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She has been Chair of the American Educational Research Association, member of the National Academy of Education and Executive Director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future whose report What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future was nominated in 2006 as being one of the most influential documents in the American education. Accordingly with this acknowledgement, Dr. Darling-Hammond was appointed as one of the most influential authors in educational policies. She has recently participated as counselor of Barack Obama in the transition to the new educational policy. In the scope of educational knowledge dissemination, her publications has receiveed notorious acknowledgements such as: the AACTE Pomeroy Award; the National Staff Development Council's Outstanding Book Award and the AERA's Outstanding Book Award.
GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings is responsible for the Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as for the Chairs of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies. Her influential labour has promoted relevant projects at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research-WCER, such as the projects Teach for Diversity and African Studies Program. She has also chaired over the prestigious American Educational Research Association, is member of the National Academy of Education, and of the prize-winning Phi Delta Ka. The evidence of her merits has made her worthy of relevants academic awads such as the AERA's Palmer O. Johnson Award, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Hilldale Award, and the Council on Anthropology and Education's Spindler Award among others. Her abundance in quality and her permanent presence in texts and Handbooks in the scope of education and in the most outstanding journals such as the Educational Researcher, the Journal of Teacher Education or Theory into Practice among other, make her become a relevant author in the international educastional scope.
