Gloria Jean Ladson-Billings FBA is an American pedagogical theorist and teacher educator known for her work in the fields of culturally relevant pedagogy and critical race theory,and the pernicious effects of systemic racism and economic inequality on educational opportunities. Her book The Dreamkeepers:Successful Teachers of African-American Children is a significant text in the field of education. Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and formerly the Kellner Family Distinguished Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Tariq Modood,is a British Pakistani Professor of Sociology,Politics,and Public Policy at the University of Bristol. Modood is the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship.
Kenneth M. Zeichner is Boeing Professor of Teacher Education and was the Director of Teacher Education from 2009 to 2013 at the University of Washington. He was the Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education and Associate Dean for Teacher Education,University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Syracuse University in educational psychology and has been on the faculty at Madison since that time. He has had visiting appointments at UmeåUniversity (Sweden),Simon Fraser University (Canada),and the University of Southern California.
Multicultural education is a set of educational strategies developed to provide students with knowledge about the histories,cultures,and contributions of diverse groups. It draws on insights from multiple fields,including ethnic studies and women studies,and reinterprets content from related academic disciplines. It is a way of teaching that promotes the principles of inclusion,diversity,democracy,skill acquisition,inquiry,critical thought,multiple perspectives,and self-reflection. One study found these strategies to be effective in promoting educational achievements among immigrant students.
Carlos Alberto Torres Novoa is a distinguished professor.
Terrence G. Wiley has served as chief executive officer of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington,D.C. (2010-2017),professor emeritus of educational policy studies and applied linguistics at Arizona State University,and member of the college of education,graduate faculty at the University of Maryland.
Christine E. Sleeter is an American professor and educational reformer. She is known as the Professor Emerita in the School of Professional Studies,California State University,Monterey Bay. She has also served as the Vice President of Division K of the American Educational Research Association,and as president of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Her work primarily focuses on multicultural education,preparation of teachers for culturally diverse schools,and anti-racism. She has been honored for her work as the recipient of the American Educational Research Association Social Justice Award,the Division K Teaching and Teacher Education Legacy Award,the CSU Monterey Bay President's Medal,the Chapman University Paulo Freire Education Project Social Justice Award,and the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group Multicultural and Multiethnic Education Lifetime Achievement Award.
Joel Westheimer is an American-born academic who researches citizenship education. He is a professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada.
G. Pritchy Smith is a Professor Emeritus of Foundations and Secondary Education at the University of North Florida (UNF),Jacksonville,Florida where he taught courses in multicultural education. His writings and research concerned issues of multicultural education and social justice. He was one of the founders of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). From 1996 to 2006,he coordinated UNF's M.Ed. Program in Belize,Central America. He is known for promoting and defining an expanded knowledge base about diversity for use in teacher training.
Diana Hess is the former dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Education.
James L. Moore III is the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer of The Ohio State University. He also serves as executive director of the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male and is the inaugural College of Education and Human Ecology Distinguished Professor of Urban Education. Moore co-founded the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education. From 2015 to 2017,Moore served as the rotating program director for Broadening Participation in Engineering in the Engineering directorate at the National Science Foundation in Arlington,Virginia. In 2018 the Dr. James L. Moore III Scholars Program,established by Missy and Bob Weiler,was created to support undergraduate students transferring from Columbus State Community College to Ohio State University.
Ratna Ghosh is a Canadian academic and education scholar. She is a Distinguished James McGill Professor and Sir William C. Macdonald Professor of Education at McGill University in Montreal,Canada,where she previously served as the Dean of the Faculty of Education from 1998 –2003.
Steven Vertovec is an anthropologist and Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity,based in Göttingen,Germany. He is also currently Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnology at the Georg August University of Göttingen and Supernumerary Fellow at Linacre College,Oxford.
Katharyne Mitchell is an American geographer who is currently a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the Dean of the Social Sciences at the University of California,Santa Cruz.
Jerome Krase (born March 2,1943,Brooklyn,New York City is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Murray Koppelman School of Business. Professor at School of Humanities and Social sciences. President of European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Angela M. Banks is an American lawyer and legal academic specialized in immigration and citizenship. She is the Charles J. Merriam distinguished professor of law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. In 2020,Banks was elected Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Liz Jackson is an American scholar of the philosophy of education and educational theory. She is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of International Education in the Faculty of Education and Human Development at the Education University of Hong Kong. Previously she was associate professor at the University of Hong Kong,where she also served as the Director of the Master of Education Program and the Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC). She is also a Fellow and Past President (2018-2020) of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA).
Matthew Sparke is a geographer and scholar of globalization whose work addresses global health,citizenship,neoliberalism,geopolitics,and border studies. He is a Professor of Politics at the University of California Santa Cruz,where he co-directs an interdisciplinary program in Global and Community Health.
Donna Y. Ford is an American educator,anti-racist,advocate,author and academic. She is a distinguished professor of education and human ecology and a faculty affiliate with the center for Latin American studies in the college of arts and sciences,and the Kirwan Institute in the college of education and human ecology at Ohio State University.
Tyrone C. Howard is an American educator,academic,and author. He is a professor of Education in the School of Education and Information Studies and the Founder and executive director of the Black Male Institute at the University of California,Los Angeles. He also serves as the Pritzker Family Endowed Chair in Education to Strengthen Children &Families,Faculty Director of UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools,as well as Director of UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children &Families.
James A. Banks Papers, 1966–2019. Papers of a University of Washington professor and specialist in social studies education and multicultural education and Founding Director of the Center for Multicultural Education. University of Washington Libraries, Special collections. http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv978972
Powers, T. F. (2002). Postmodernism and James A. Banks’ Multiculturalism: The Limits of Intellectual History. Educational Theory, Vol. 52 (2), 209–221.
Robert F. Arnove (May, 2019). Review of Citizenship Education and Global Migration: Implications for Theory, Research, and Teaching, edited by James A. Banks. Comparative Education Review, Volume 63, Number 2). https://doi.org/10.1086/702679
