Youth Development To Be Topic Of Acer Colloquium

BUFFALO, N.Y -- "New Perspectives on Youth Development" will be the topic of the Charlotte C. Acer Colloquium on Urban Education, to be held from 4-6 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.

The lecture, sponsored by the UB Graduate School of Education, will be free and open to the public.

The speaker will be Shirley Brice Heath, professor of English and linguistics at Stanford University. Heath will discuss how young people are able -- through challenges, demanding standards and deadlines in school -- to put the information and skills they learn in school into practice within the community.

Heath is a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on sociocultural contexts of learning and relations between oral/written language socialization across cultures and institutional settings. She is on leave from Stanford to research, through the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the various paths of learning taken by young people committed to the economic and social future of their communities. Her most recent work focuses on the impact the arts have on enhancing pro-social, academic and long-term values of youth from economically depressed rural and urban neighborhoods.