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Community Cultural Wealth: Uyghurs, Social Networks, and Education
Start Date: 4/15/2014Start Time: 12:00 PM
End Date: 4/15/2014End Time: 1:30 PM

Event Description

Uyghurs, one of China’s 56 officially recognized ethnic groups, are a linguistic minority within China who speak the Uyghur language, a Turkic language utilizing a modified Arabic script, and most are practicing Moslems. Dr. Clothey’s presentation will show ways in which Uyghurs draw from their own community resources to navigate within a Mandarin-dominant education and economic system, “capitalize” on their language and ethnicity, and also create systems within their own community to support others.
 
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Contact Dr. Clothey at rac52@drexel.edu or 215.571.5931 prior to the lecture for the live webcast link.  

About The Speaker:
 
Dr. Rebecca Clothey has been a faculty member in Drexel University's School of Education since 2006 when she was hired away from a position in Beijing, China.  Her research focuses on access and equity issues in higher education, with a particular interest in education in China, Central Asia, and Turkey. 

Dr. Clothey has lived in India, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and China, where she spent almost six years.  Prior to working at Drexel University she had been based at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China; Beijing Institute of Education, and Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, Sichuan.  In the fall of 2013 she was a visiting scholar at Xinjiang Normal University in Urumqi. She speaks Mandarin and has also studied Uyghur, a language spoken in China’s northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

She served as the Director of Drexel's Global and International Education program from spring 2008 to fall 2011, and Director of Drexel's Higher Education program from spring 2007 to spring 2010.
 
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About the Global Education Colloquium:
 
Established in November 2013, the Global Education Colloquium is a monthly Brown Bag Lunch Series that features distinguished speakers and lively discussion.

The topics presented will be the result of research spanning the full range of learning, teaching and training topics including international studies, higher education, peace education, social justice, inequality, politics of knowledge, policy, leadership and organizational change.
 
GEC events are held the third Tuesday of every month on the main campus of Drexel University, start promptly at 12 Noon. You are invited to bring your lunch. Drinks and cookies will be served.

Learn more about the Global Education Colloquium Series
Contact Information:
Name: Stephanie Boysen
Phone: 215–895-0900
Email: SOEeventRSVP@drexel.edu
GEC: April
Location:
One Drexel Plaza
3001 Market Street
Room 004
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Prospective Students
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