Professor Emerita
California State University
Monterey Bay
SAVE THE DATE for the 20th Annual Conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education,
Nov. 4-6, 2010
Rio Hotel, Las Vegas
To learn more, visit the conference's tab on the NAME website
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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. She was formerly a high school learning disabilities teacher in Seattle. Currently a visiting
professor at San Francisco State University, she was 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, and University of
Washington, Seattle. Currently serving as President-Elect of the National Association for Multicultural Education, she 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 multicultural 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 edited books and journals such as Journal of Teacher Education, Teacher Education Quarterly, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Curriculum Inquiry. Her recent books include Unstandardizing Curriculum (Teachers College Press, 2005), 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. Her theorizing about disability was featured in a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly. 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, and the
National Association for Multicultural Education Research 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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