'Unfit to Be a Slave'

The Global Studies Seminars, an interdisciplinary intellectual forum for the Denison community to discuss and debate academic and policy issues of global importance, welcomes educator David Green presenting, “Unfit to be a Slave: The Revolutionary Role of Education in Social Transformation.” David Greene President of the Board of The Freedom School in Licking County, a non-profit educational institution for social change founded in 2010. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945, Greene was educated at Brooklyn College (B.S., 1966), the University of Maine (M.S., 1968) and The City University of New York (1990-1993). He has been an innovator in the field of adult learning. He founded the Southern Appalachian Labor School in West Virginia in 1979 and co-founded the Paolo Freire Institute for Popular Education and Social Change in 1997.Greene is co-author of “Working Hands, Working Minds: A Vocational Education Curriculum.“ He has published several articles on education for social change, including “Gatekeepers and Social Control” and “The Role of Student Voice.”