Programme 328, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot & Sociology (16-5-18)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I bring you my interview with Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Professor Lawrence-Lightfoot has written 10 books, including The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture and The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other. In the course of our interview, we discussed the following matters: Diversity and tokenism Why education research needs to move away from a pathological approach An alternative approach to conducting educational research Visibility of children in classrooms When global atrocities make the news, how can they be handled in classrooms? What looking at education through a sociological lens can make visible The importance of context in social science research Portraiture as a form of research Her book Exit: The Endings that Set Us Free Why truth matters more than facts