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James A.
Banks
is Russell F. Stark University Professor and director of
the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington,
Seattle. He is a past president of the American Educational Research
Association (AERA) and of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS).
He is a specialist in social studies education and multicultural
education. His books include Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies,
Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society, and Diversity
and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives. He is the editor of
the Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education and of
the Multicultural Education Series of books published by Teachers
College Press. Banks is a member of the Board of Children, Youth and
Families of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine
of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the National
Academy of Education. He received the Distinguished Career Research in
Social Studies Award from the National Council for the Social Studies in
2001 and the Social Justice in Education Award from the American
Educational Research Association in 2004. During the 2005-2006 academic
year, he will be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Cherry A.
McGee Banks is Professor of Education at the University of
Washington, Bothell. In 1997, she received the Distinguished Teaching
Award from the University of Washington, Bothell and in 2000 she was
named a Worthington Distinguished Professor. Her current research
focuses on intergroup education, an educational movement that addressed
issues of democracy and diversity in the 1930s and 40s. Professor Banks
has contributed to such journals as the Phi Delta Kappan,
Social Studies and the Young Learner, Educational Policy,
Theory Into Practice, and Social Education. Professor Banks
is associate editor of the Handbook of Research on Multicultural
Education, coeditor of Multicultural Education: Issues and
Perspectives and co-author of Teaching Strategies for the Social
Studies. Her latest book is titled Improving Multicultural
Education: Lessons From the Intergroup Education Movement. She also
serves on several national committees and boards including the American
Educational Research Journal’s editorial board and the Board of
Examiners for the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher
Education.
Carlos E. Cortés is Professor
Emeritus of History at the University of
California,
Riverside. Since 1990 he has served on the summer faculty of the
Harvard Institutes for Higher Education and since 1995 has been on the
faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication. His
most recent books, The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach
about Diversity and The Making -- and Remaking -- of a
Multiculturalist, were published by Teachers College Press. He is
co-author of the new Houghton Mifflin Social Studies series, senior
consultant for the new McDougal Littell World History series, and
Cultural Consultant for Nickelodeon's Peabody-award-winning children's
television series, "Dora the Explorer," while he also performs his
one-person autobiographical play, A Conversation with Alana:
One Boy's Multicultural Rite of Passage. A consultant to many
government agencies, school systems, universities, mass media, private
businesses, and other organizations, Cortés has lectured widely
throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia
on the implications of diversity for education, government, private
business, and the mass media.
Gary R. Howard
has 35 years of experience working with issues of civil rights,
social justice, equity, education, and diversity. He is a keynote
speaker, writer, and workshop leader who travels extensively throughout
the United States and Australia. Mr. Howard founded the REACH Center
for Multicultural Education in 1976, and the REACH teacher training
design and classroom materials are presently being used
internationally. He completed his undergraduate and graduate work in
Cultural Anthropology and Social Psychology at Yale University, and has
served as adjunct professor at several universities. His most recent
book, We Can't Teach What We Don't Know, was published by
Columbia University in 1999 and is considered a groundbreaking work
examining issues of privilege, power, and the role of White leaders and
educators in a multicultural society.
Lee Mun Wah. A nationally acclaimed lecturer and
trainer, Lee Mun Wah is the Executive Director and founder of StirFry
Seminars. He is a Chinese American community therapist, documentary
filmmaker, educator, performing poet, Asian Folkteller and author. For
over 25 years he taught Special Education in the San Francisco Unified
School District as a Resource Specialist. As a teacher he authored
Satori Programs, a comprehensive phonics, reading and math program for
at risk students with learning disabilities.
In 1993 his first film on Asian Americans, Stolen Ground, won the San
Francisco International Film Festival’s Certificate of Merit Award for
Best Bay Area Documentary. His second film, The Color of Fear, won the
National Education Media Network’s Best Social Documentary Award for
1995. In 1998 Walking Each Other Home won the Cindy International Film
Festival’s Silver Medal for Best Social Issues Award. In 1995 Oprah
Winfrey televised a one hour special on his work and life which was
viewed by over 15 million viewers across the nation. Since then,
thousands have taken his seminars and attended his lectures and
trainings.
James Loewen
spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying twelve leading
high school textbooks of American history. He found an embarrassing
blend of bland optimism, blind nationalism, and plain misinformation,
weighing in at an average of 888 pages and almost five pounds. In
response, he wrote Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School
History Textbook Got Wrong, in part a telling critique of existing
textbooks, but also a gripping retelling of American history as it
should, and could, be taught.
Jim Loewen taught race relations for twenty years at the University of
Vermont. Previously he taught at predominantly black Tougaloo College in
Mississippi. He now lives in Washington, D.C., continuing his research
on how Americans remember their past. Lies Across America: What Our
Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong came out in 1999. His other
books include Mississippi: Conflict and Change (co-authored), which won
the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction but was rejected
for public-school text use by the State of Mississippi, leading to the
path-breaking First Amendment lawsuit, Loewen et al. v. Turnipseed, et
al. He also wrote The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White,
Social Science in the Courtroom, and The Truth About Columbus. He
attended Carleton College and holds the Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard
University.
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