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Biographical Sketch
Janice Ellen Hale was born in Fort
Wayne. Indiana, and grew up in Columbus. Ohio. She is the daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Phale D. Hale. Her father is the pastor emeritus
of Union Grove Baptist Church, a former Ohio state legislator and former
chairman of The Ohio Civil Rights Commission. Her mother is an educator in
the field of early childhood education.
Janice Hale was educated in the
public schools of Columbus. Ohio. She received the B.A. degree from Spelman College in sociology and elementary education.
She received the Masters of Religious Education degree from the
Interdenominational Theological Center with a major in Christian Education.
She received the Ph.D. degree from Georgia State University in early
childhood education.
Dr. Hale served as assistant and
associate professor of early childhood education at Clark College in Atlanta.
Georgia, from 1974-1980. While on a leave of absence from Clark, she worked
as a research fellow and visiting lecturer in the Laboratory of Comparative
Human Cognition at the University of California, San Diego. She continued her
research from 1979-1981 as a Research Associate on the faculty of the
Department of Psychology at Yale University in New Haven. Connecticut. She
was also a visiting professor in Afro-American Studies at Yale. Dr. Hale also
taught in the Department of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and
in early childhood education at Jackson State University in Mississippi and
Cleveland State University in Ohio.
Presently, Dr. Hale is professor of early childhood education at Wayne State
University in Detroit, Michigan. She is also founder of Visions for Children,
a research/demonstration early childhood education program that is designed to
facilitate the intellectual development of African American preschool
children. She received funding for the research associated with from the
Council for Economic Opportunities and the Cleveland foundation for seven
years.
She has served as a speaker and consultant to numerous colleges, professional
organizations and early childhood education programs across the United States
and Jamaica.
Dr. Hale received two grants to travel to West Africa and study the racial
attitudes of African preschool children. She also participated in a study
tour to study African life and culture. She was a recipient of a grant from
the Spencer Foundation to support the study of Black children's learning
styles which was the foundation for her present work. Supported by the grant,
she traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to attend a seminar on applications of
the work of Jean Piaget for African American children.
Dr. Hale has written numerous articles in her field and has written three
books. Her first book originally appeared in the fall of 1982. It was issued
in a revised edition by The Johns Hopkins University press in 1986. The title
of her first book is Black Children: Their roots, culture and
learning styles. She is examining the influence of culture on the
learning styles of African American children.
Dr. Hale's second book was released in the fall of 1994. The title of her
second book is Unbank the Fire:
Visions for the education of African American children. In this book,
she traces the historical factors that influence unequal educational outcomes
for African American children. She further develops her theory of a
culturally appropriate pedagogy that can close that achievement gap. Unbank the Fire was nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize.
Dr. Hale's third book was released in the winter of 2001. The title is Learning
While Black: Creating educational excellence for African American children.
In this book, Dr. Hale outlines her model for school reform for African
American children. She also unveils a plan for the whole village to united in creating the Beloved Community to support the
achievement of children. Learning While Black was also
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Dr. Hale has been the recipient of numerous honors such as having been named
Distinguished Alumna of the School of Education at Georgia State University
in 1982; by Ebony Magazine as one of 50 future leaders in its
August 1978 issue on the New Generation, and recognized for outstanding
contributions to education by the Detroit Chapter of the National Coalition of
100 Black Women in 1994.
Dr. Hale has served as a member of the Governing Board of the National
Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
(1988-1992) and a consulting editor of Young Children
(1985-1992). She has also served as a consultant to the Children's Television
Workshop program Sesame Street and Mister Roger's
Neighborhood.
Janice Hale is the mother of Keith A. Benson, Jr. who was born on August 13,
1988.
A complete curriculum vita may be obtained here.
Click below for information on Janice Hale's books.
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/1863.html
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