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29th Annual Faculty Lecture
Democracy, Diversity and Social Justice:
Education in a Global Age
James A. Banks
Russell F. Stark University Professor, College of Education
Director, Center for Multicultural Education
Thursday, March 3, 2005
Kane Hall, University of Washington
Professor James A. Banks has been a researcher and leader in efforts to increase educational equality for all students in the United States and the world for more than three decades. As a fifth grade teacher in Chicago, then as a graduate student at Michigan State University, as a professor at the University of Washington beginning in 1969, Banks has pursued questions related to education, racial inequality, and social justice in more than 100 journal articles and 20 books. His most recent book, Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives, examines the unity-diversity tension in 12 nations.
Professor Banks is the Russell F. Stark University Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education in the College of Education. He has received many awards and honors for his research and professional service. He was elected president of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) in 1982 and later received that organization’s Distinguished Career Research Award. In 1997, he was elected President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the chief educational research association in the United States and the world. From AERA, Professor Banks has received the Research Review Award (1993), a Distinguished Career Contribution Award (1996), and the inaugural Social Justice Award (2004) for his work "demonstrating the critical role of education research in supporting social justice."
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