Geraldene Geri Hodelin, faculty dean for Education and Liberal Studies at the University of Technology in Kingston, Jamaica, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in the Atkin-Colby halls basement.
Admission is free.
Hodelin feels that globalization marginalizes poorer families in developing countries like Jamaica and, since trade and technology are measures of growth in a globalized environment, they also serve as measures of disempowerment and disillusionment in other environments. Hodelin will discuss her belief that Jamaican families respond in peculiar ways to pressures caused by the nation s quest to become part of the globalized world.