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JAMES BANKS | Faculty
James A. Banks delivered the 29th Faculty Lecture, "Democracy, Diversity and Social Justice: Education in a Global Age'"...
CME LECTURE | Audrey Osler
24th CME Symposium, "Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Minority Education in Britain: a Question of Civil Rights or Human Rights?" ...
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The Routledge International
Companion to Multicultural Education
Edited by James A. Banks
This volume is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive international description and analysis of multicultural education around the world. It is organized around key concepts and uses case studies from various nations in different parts of the world to exemplify and illustrate the concepts.
Case studies are from many
nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France,
Germany, Spain, Norway, Bulgaria, Russia, South Africa, Japan, China, India, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brazil, and Mexico. Two chapters focus on regions— Latin America and the French-speaking nations in Africa. The book is divided
into ten sections, covering theory and research pertaining to curriculum reform, immigration and citizenship, language, religion, and the education of ethnic and cultural minority
groups among other topics. Learn more»
Read a published review of the Companion.
Diversity,Group Identity,and Citizenship Education in a Global Age
in Educational Researcher, April 2008
James A. Banks
Worldwide immigration and quests for rights by minority groups have caused social scientists and educators to raise serious questions about liberal assimilationist conceptions of citizenship that historically have dominated citizenship education in nation-states. Here, Dr. James Banks challenges liberal assimilationist conceptions of citizenship and citizenship education. He argues that citizenship education should be reformed so that it reflects the home cultures and languages of students from diverse groups, and he contends that group rights can help individuals to attain structural equality. In the final part of the article, Dr. Banks discusses the implications of his analysis for transforming citizenship education.
Learning In and Out of School in Diverse Environments: Life-Long, Life-Wde, Life-Deep
James A. Banks, Kathryn H. Au, Arnetha F. Ball, Philip Bell, Edmund W. Gordon, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Shirley Brice Heath, Carol D. Lee, Yuhshi Lee, Jabari Mahiri, Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Guadalupe Valdés, Min Zhou
The increasing number of immigrant students, English Language Learners, and students of color in U. S. schools present educators with both opportunities and challenges. How can educators help close the achievement gap by building upon the languages and other learning that occurs in the home and community cultures of students from diverse groups? This question guided the work of the LIFE Diversity Consensus Panel convened by the LIFE Center (The Learning in Informal and Formal Environments Center) and the Center for Multicultural Education.
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