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NAME is fortunate to have among its members, many of the
top scholars and educators
in the field of multicultural
education. Permission has been specifically granted to
NAME
by these authors to have their photographs and biographies listed here.
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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
(http://depts.washington.edu/centerme/home.htm)
Professor Banks is the editor, with Cherry A. McGee Banks, of the Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (Second Edition, Jossey-Bass, 2004), which received the NAME Multicultural Book Award in 1997; and Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives (Fifth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2004). He is the editor of the “Multicultural Education Series” of books published by Teachers College Press, Columbia University. There are currently 18 published books in the Series. Others books are in various stages of development.
Professor Banks
holds honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters from the Bank Street College
of Education, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, the University of
Wisconsin-Parkside, and DePaul University in Chicago. He is a member of
the Board on 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. |
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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 is the co-author, with
Donna M. Gollnick, of Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society,
Merrill Publishing Company, (Seventh Edition, In Press). 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. |
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Carl A.
Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor of
Teacher Education in the Department of
Curriculum and Instruction at the University
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 from 1999-2001. In 1990 the Association of Teacher Educators selected Dr. Grant as one of the 70 Leaders in Teacher Education. In 1997 he received the School of Education Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 2001 he received the G. Pritchy Smith Multicultural Educator Award from NAME and the Angela Davis Race, Gender, and Class Award from the Race, Gender, and Class Project. Some of Dr. Grant’s recent publications include - Grant, C.A. (2003). An education guide to diversity in the classroom. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; Grant, C.A. & Lei, Joy L. (2001). Global construction of multicultural education: Theories and realities. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum; Grant, C.A. & Sleeter, C.E. (2003). Turning on learning: Five approaches for multicultural teaching plans for race, class, gender, and disability (3rd edition). New York: Wiley and Grant, C.A. & Sleeter, CE (2003). Making choices for multicultural education: Five approaches to race, class and gender (4th edition). New York: Wiley. His book, Global Constructions of Multicultural Education: Theories and Realities (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001) received the Philip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award from NAME. The website for Carl A. Grant's website is: http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ci/faculty/grant.htm |
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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 co-author with Philip Chinn of Multicultural Education in a
Pluralistic Society . She is also co-author of the textbooks,
Introduction to the Foundations of American Education, in its 13th
edition, and The Joy of Teaching: An Introduction to the Profession.
In 1996, the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Purdue University
presented her a Distinguished Alumni Award. 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. |
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Sonia Nieto is Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has been a teacher for 35 years, teaching students at all levels from elementary grades through graduate school. Her research focuses on multicultural education, the education of Latinos, immigrants, and other culturally and linguistically diverse students, and Puerto Rican children’s literature. Her books include Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education (4th ed., 2003), The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities (1999), and Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools (2000). She has also published numerous book chapters and articles in such journals as The Harvard Educational Review, Educational Forum, Multicultural Education, and Theory into Practice. She serves on several national advisory boards that focus on educational equity and social justice, and she has received many awards for her advocacy and activism, including the 1989 Human and Civil Rights Award from the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the 1995 Drylongso Award for Anti-Racist Activists from Community Change in Boston, the 1996 Teacher of the Year Award from the Hispanic Educators of Massachusetts, and the 1997 Multicultural Educator of the Year Award from NAME, the National Association for Multicultural Education. She was an Annenberg Institute Senior Fellow (1998-2000) and she received an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in May, 1999. In June, 2000, she was awarded a month-long residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy.
What Keeps Teachers Going?
NY: Teachers College Press, 2003. The website for Sonia Nieto is:
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~snieto |
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Christine E. Sleeter is a Professor in the College of
Professional Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay. She
was a former classroom teacher in Seattle. She is incoming Vice
President of Division K of the American Educational Research Association
(2004-2006), and was General Program Chair of the 1998 AERA Annual
Meeting. She was President of the Sociology of Education Association
(2001-2003). Dr. Sleeter has received several awards for her work including the California State University Monterey Bay President’s Medal (2003), the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Research Award (1994), and the AERA Committee on the Role and Status of Minorities in Education Distinguished Scholar Award (1995). Some of her recent publications include Sleeter, C. E. (2004). Context-conscious portraits and context-blind policy. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 35(1): 132-136; Sleeter, C. E. (2003) Teaching globalization. Multicultural Perspectives 5(2): 3-9; Sleeter, C. E. (2003) Reform and control: An analysis of SB 2042. Teacher Education Quarterly, 20 (1): 19-30; Sleeter, C. E. (2002) State curriculum standards and the shaping of student consciousness. Social Justice 29 (4): 8-25; Sleeter, C. E. (2001) Culture, Difference and Power (Teachers College Press); and Turning on Learning and Making Choices for Multicultural Education, both with Carl Grant (Wiley, 2003). The website for Christine E. Sleeter is http://home.csumb.edu/s/sleeterchristine/world/ |
