Professor Emerita
California State University
Monterey Bay
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Christine
E. Sleeter, PhD. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982) is Professor
Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State
University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. Formerly a high school learning disabilities teacher in Seattle, she previously served as a faculty member at Ripon College in Wisconsin and at the
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and a visiting professor at Victoria University in New Zealand, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, and University of
Washington, Seattle. She is currently President of the National Association for Multicultural Education, and previously served as Vice President of Division K
(Teaching and Teacher Education) of the American Educational Research
Association. Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural
education and teacher education, and currently she is developing a new area, critical family history. With a team of researchers in Victoria University, New Zealand, she recently completed an evaluation study of a Maori professional development program for secondary schools. Dr. Sleeter has published over
100 articles in journals and edited books, such as Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, Disability Studies Quarterly, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Curriculum Inquiry. Her recent books include Teaching with Vision (with Catherine Cornbleth, Teachers College Press, 2011), Critical Multiculturalism: Theory and Praxis (with Stephen May, Routledge, 2010), and Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity (with Carl Grant; Routledge, 2007). Her work has been translated into Spanish, Korean, French, and Portuguese. She has been invited to speak in most
U.S. states as well as several countries. Awards for her work include
the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award, the American Educational Research Association Division K Legacy Award, the California State University Monterey Bay President's Medal, the
National Association for Multicultural Education Research Award, the Central Washington University Distinguished Alumni Award, and the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender Senior Scholar Award. You can listen to her talk about race and the opportunity gap in schools for Teaching Tolerance, or watch her speak about critical family history.
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