Educational Pluralism and Democracy: A Conversation with Ashley Berner
Date: October 30, 2024
Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm ET
Location: Zoom
Are you concerned about the increasing polarization that characterizes democracies? Tired of the culture wars?
Our ability to have constructive conversations across lines of disagreement seems increasingly rare. How can we rebuild a conversation toward a hopeful future? What role might our education systems have to play in that conversation?
Join us as Ashley Rogers Berner explores these questions and offers concrete solutions for K-12 educators, policymakers, and researchers alike to consider. Drawing from her recently published book, Educational Pluralism and Democracy: How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools, Ashley will join Cardus Education for a conversation on how best to prepare the next generation for democratic society.
Ashley Berner
Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Associate Professor of Education
Palgrave MacMillan released Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School (2017), and Harvard Education Press released her new book, Educational Pluralism and American Democracy: How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools, in April 2024.
Dr. Berner has published dozens of articles, books, book chapters, op-eds, and a widely watched TedX talk on citizenship formation, academic outcomes, pluralism, and the political theories of education in different national contexts. She led the design of the Institute’s School Culture 360™ and ELA and Social Studies Knowledge Maps™. Dr. Berner represents the Institute’s work across the United States and consults regularly with international, federal, and state-level agencies, non-governmental organizations, and school systems.
Dr. Berner holds degrees from Davidson College (Honors A.B.) and from Oxford University (M.Litt. and D.Phil. in Modern History).