Lisa Delpit Biography

Lisa D. Delpit is an American educationalist and author. After she obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in Education she was eager to utilize the progressive teaching strategies in her first teaching position at an inner-city open elementary school in Southern Philadelphia. Dissonance arose in Delpit's teaching when she realized her strategies did not work for all her students; her white students zooming ahead while her black students played games and learned to read but only much slower than the white kids. Later on when Delpit attended Harvard Graduate School of Education to pursue her Master's and Doctoral degrees in Curriculum Instruction and Research she came to understand the importance of students learning to write in meaningful contexts. Delpit went on to explore the novel views acquired about culture and learning by way of a fellowship she received which facilitated her work in Papua New Guinea. This easternmost part of New Guinea served as a natural laboratory for Delpit who spent approximately one year on the island evaluating school programs for the local government and conducting her own research.

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