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Special Conference Feature -
Conversations With The Authors

This unique conference feature will allow conference participants to interact  with some of the most noted scholars and authors in the field of  multicultural education. Those major figures invited to conduct this year’s informal conversations are Donna M Gollnick, Philip C. Chinn, Carl Grant, Peggy McIntosh and Sonia Nieto.
 
 



Donna M Gollnick is Past -President of the National Association for Multicultural Education. She is also Senior Vice President of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)




 		 Gollnick and Chinn are two of the most respected names in the field of multicultural education. Their seminal textbook “Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society” (Merrill) was one of the first to clearly define the field and set the standard for future texts on multicultural education. It is routinely rated as one of the most commonly used texts in the field.

Donna M Gollnick is Past -President of the National Association for Multicultural Education. She is also Senior Vice President of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), where she oversees accreditation activities. She was a contributor to the 1995 Handbook on Research in Multicultural Education. She is also co-author of the textbooks, Introduction to the Foundations of American Education, in its 13th edition, and The Joy of Teaching: Introduction to the Profession (in press). AACTE honored her as an “Advocate for Justice” in 1998 and NAME has honored her for her years of devotion and her continuing work for NAME by creating a fellowship in Donna and her late husband’s names – the Donna M. Gollnick & Willard Loftis Fellowship for research in Multicultural Education.
 


Philip C. Chinn is a Professor Emeritus in the Division of Special Education, California State University, Los Angeles.		 Philip C. Chinn is a Professor Emeritus in the Division of Special Education, California State University, Los Angeles. He served as the Special Assistant to the Executive Director for Minority Concerns (now Diversity Affairs) at the Council for Exceptional Children from 1978-1984. He also served as the Director of the California State University, Los Angeles Center for Multicultural Education until his retirement. He has also co-authored two texts in special education, and numerous textbook chapters. Until his recent retirement, he served on the NCATE Board of Examiners,served as vice-president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), and as a Commissioner on the California State Advisory Commission on Special Education. He served as co-editor of Multicultural Perspectives, the journal of NAME 1997-2001. He is a recipient of the National Association for Bilingual Education President’s Award, and the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education’s Advocate for Justice Award. In 2002, National Association for Multicultural Education honored him by naming their Multicultural Book Award in his name.
 
   

Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education,
Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison		 Carl A. Grant has been a profoundly influential leader in the field of multicultural education. Through his teaching and his scholarship, he has helped shape the course of the discipline. His devotion and dedication to the field has been evident in his stewardship in helping create and define the National Association for Multicultural Education as THE professional organization for multicultural educators.

Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education, Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a former classroom teacher and administrator, and has spent time in England as a
Fulbright Scholar. He was President of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) from 1993-1999. He was also Editor of Review of Educational Research from 1996-1999, and served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on
Assessment and Teacher Quality from1999-2001. Some of Carl Grant’s recent publications include: An Education Guide to Diversity in the Classroom (Houghton Mifflin); Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class,  Gender and Disability (3rd Edition), with Christine Sleeter (Wiley); and Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender (4th Edition), with Christine Sleeter, (Wiley). His most recent book, Global Constructions of Multicultural Education: Theories and Realities (Lawrence Erlbaum), received the Philip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award from NAME.
 
   


Peggy McIntosh, Associate Director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, is also the founder, and co-director with Emily Style, of the National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project on Inclusive Curriculum.
 		 Few people have been as influential in the field of gender studies as Peggy McIntosh. Her research article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” has been perhaps the most quoted and referenced source on white, male privilege.

Peggy McIntosh, Associate Director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, is also the founder, and co-director with Emily Style, of the National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project on Inclusive Curriculum. The SEED Project helps teachers create their own year-long, school based seminars on making school climates, K-12 curricula, and teaching methods more gender fair and multiculturally equitable. McIntosh directs the Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Project, which provides workshops on privilege systems, feelings of fraudulence, and diversifying workplaces, curricula, and teaching methods. Dr. McIntosh has taught English, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at the Brearley School, Harvard University, Trinity College (Washington, D.C.), Durham University (England), and Wellesley College. In addition to having two honorary degrees, she is a recipient of the Klingenstein Award for
Distinguished Educational Leadership from Columbia Teachers College.

 
   


Sonia Nieto is a Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.		 Join in on an informal chat with one of the field’s most beloved scholars and educators. Sonia Nieto has inspired countless teachers, teacher educators and community activists with her insightful writing and passion for educational excellence and equity. Nieto has been a teacher at all levels. Her research has focused on multicultural education, educating students of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and the need for social justice in teacher education.

Sonia Nieto is a Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her books include Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education (Allyn & Bacon) and The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities (Teachers College Press). Her most recent, and inspiring book is What Keeps Teachers Going (In Spite of Everything)? (Teachers College Press). Dr Nieto is currently working on two new books Dear Paulo: Letters from Teachers to Paulo Freire (Paradigm Publishers) and Why We Teach (Teachers College Press).
 

Conversations with the Authors are scheduled throughout the conference.