Christine E Sleeter
Biographic Data
| ID | 644173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine E Sleeter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine E |
| FAMILY NAME | Sleeter |
| SIGNATURE | SLEETER C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Monterey Bay |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4566-8149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 995 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Reprint
This article invites candidates for president to strengthen teaching and teacher education for diverse students. The article first describes two remarkable teachers in California to illustrate what strong teaching of diverse students looks like. It then discusses what the diverse students of this nation need of teachers, including teachers with high expectations for student learning regardless of students' current performance, teachers who can en…
Support for Diverse Students Through Teacher Education Still Needs Presidential Leadership
In this article, Sleeter reflects on her previous article, "An Invitation to Support Diverse Students through Teacher Education." She argues that her earlier recommendations are still valid, but changing conditions have lent them greater urgency. Research has made clear the positive impact of culturally relevant curriculum and pedagogy on students of color. Although White teachers still dominate the profession, White students are no longer in the…
Reinventing Teacher Education
Over the past decades, there have been numerous calls to reform teacher education. Critics argue that teacher education is too disconnected from schools (Green, 2015), not rigorous enough (Ripley
Imagining possible worlds with young children, families, and teachers
KEYWORDS: Indigenous languagesfamily pedagogiescommunity-led initiativesearly childhood educationnarrative of possibility
Challenging Racism and Colonialism Through Ethnic Studies
Because of historical amnesia reinforced through schooling, peoples who are marginalized on the basis of race, ethnicity, and immigration have often learned to accept rather than challenge that marginalization. This chapter shows how ethnic studies in U.S. elementary and secondary schools attempts to combat the historical amnesia schooling perpetuates regarding colonialism and racism. The chapter reviews processes that diluted how many people und…
Critical Family History
Critical family history challenges historians to ask about their ancestors. Who else (what other groups) was around, what were the power relationships among groups, how were these relationships maintained or challenged over time, and what does all this have to do with our lives now? These are different questions from the questions most family historians ask. This introductory essay elaborates on what critical family history is and where the conce…
Multicultural Education
This is the edior's note for the EMME-IJME 20th Anniversary Special Issue
Multicultural Education Past, Present, and Future
Using Kymlicka's analysis of conflicts between "imperatives of state control" and "objectives of social movements," I draw on my experiences with multicultural education to extrapolate some trends from the past and present that may inform the future. After briefly describing the origins of multicultural education (mainly within the United States), I situate struggles over education in the context of the global expansion of neoliberalism, critique…
Critical Race Theory and the Whiteness of Teacher Education
This article uses three tenets of critical race theory to critique the common pattern of teacher education focusing on preparing predominantly White cohorts of teacher candidates for racially and ethnically diverse students. The tenet of interest convergence asks how White interests are served through incremental steps. The tenet of color blindness prompts asking how structures that seem neutral, such as teacher testing, reinforce Whiteness and W…
Abrazos to Richard Ruiz
Wrestling with problematics of whiteness in teacher education
Teacher education programs in countries where minoritized students1 experience systematic and persistent racial discrimination face tension between (1) producing teachers equipped to reverse discri
Multicultural curriculum and critical family history
Family history research connects very well with multicultural curriculum because it opens up the multiple experiences of members and communities of a society, as well as helping to make visible the historic construction and ongoing legacy of unequal relationships. The author of this article began to play with what she later called “critical family history,” while simultaneously teaching a course on Multicultural Curriculum Design and researching …
Interrogating Identity and Social Contexts Through “Critical Family History
Tracing one's family genealogy is a complex process that requires situating a family's narratives within a historical context. This article reviews the use of critical family history research in an undergraduate Asian American studies course to examine not only the diversity and experiences of Asian Americans but also the unspoken narratives that lead to the creation of a single story. We are told single stories that often neglect the sociocultur…
Multiculturalism and education for citizenship in a context of neoliberalism
Multicultural education usually arises from a concern that schools prepare young people for constructive public participation as citizens in a diverse society that is struggling with equity issues. Conventional multicultural education, which I will critique, tends to assume a liberal conception of citizenship that is based on individualism and a simplistic analysis of how power works. I will argue that the growing reach of neoliberalism requires …
Toward Teacher Education Research That Informs Policy
This article investigates the extent to which researchers are currently engaged in a shared research program that offers systematic evidence of the classroom impact of organized venues (preservice as well as inservice) for teacher professional learning. The article stems from concern about policies rooted in suspicion that teacher education is either ineffective or tangential to improving outcomes for students, as well as earlier findings that fa…
Toward an Ethnic Studies Pedagogy
Teaching for Social Justice in Multicultural Classrooms
Drawing on my work in the U.S., I briefly discuss four related hallmarks of teaching for social justice in diverse classrooms, supported by research on their impact on students. They include explicitly recognizing and working with students’ culture as a basis for learning, teaching key concepts in the curriculum through content and examples drawn from more than one cultural group, involving students in structured dialoguing across their differenc…
Teaching for Social Justice in Multicultural Classrooms
After The School Bell Rings
Set in the American community of Rivercrest in a multi-racial junior school, this text provides a portrait of the beliefs and understandings held by students, teachers and administrators with respect to issues such as race, social class and gender
President's Column
Confronting the Marginalization of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Globally, over the last two decades, attention to culturally responsive, multicultural approaches to teaching have largely been supplanted by standardized curricula and pedagogy that derive from neoliberal business models of school reform. In this essay, I discuss three factors that contribute to the marginalization of culturally responsive pedagogy: (a) a persistence of faulty and simplistic conceptions of what culturally responsive pedagogy is,…
News From The Name President
News From the Name President
Becoming white
Many teacher educators attempt to prompt teacher candidates, who are usually majority white, to examine themselves as culturally and historically located beings in order to prepare for multicultural and anti‐racist teaching. But with white teacher candidates in colonialist societies, this work is difficult. Family history stories that white teacher candidates tell tend to disassociate individuals from the context of race and class relations in wh…
Critical Multiculturalism
Introduction Multiculturalism has made less progress in science education compared with other curriculum areas, reflecting the abyss separating science and culture, and the adherence of school science to a traditional disciplinary view of the curriculum and the canonical science knowledge therein (Duschl, 1985). The nature of science knowledge, purposely aiming to exclude human dimensions such as aesthetics or history, precludes the options avail…
Preparing Teachers for Culturally Diverse Schools
This article reviews data-based research studies on preservice teacher preparation for multicultural schools, particularly schools that serve historically underserved communities. In this article, the author reviews 80 studies of effects of various preservice teacher education strategies, including recruiting and selecting students, cross-cultural immersion experiences, multicultural education coursework, and program restructuring. Although there…
Critical Race Theory and the Whiteness of Teacher Education
This article uses three tenets of critical race theory to critique the common pattern of teacher education focusing on preparing predominantly White cohorts of teacher candidates for racially and ethnically diverse students. The tenet of interest convergence asks how White interests are served through incremental steps. The tenet of color blindness prompts asking how structures that seem neutral, such as teacher testing, reinforce Whiteness and W…
Confronting the Marginalization of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Globally, over the last two decades, attention to culturally responsive, multicultural approaches to teaching have largely been supplanted by standardized curricula and pedagogy that derive from neoliberal business models of school reform. In this essay, I discuss three factors that contribute to the marginalization of culturally responsive pedagogy: (a) a persistence of faulty and simplistic conceptions of what culturally responsive pedagogy is,…
Equity, democracy, and neoliberal assaults on teacher education
Toward an Ethnic Studies Pedagogy
Multicultural Education Past, Present, and Future
Using Kymlicka's analysis of conflicts between "imperatives of state control" and "objectives of social movements," I draw on my experiences with multicultural education to extrapolate some trends from the past and present that may inform the future. After briefly describing the origins of multicultural education (mainly within the United States), I situate struggles over education in the context of the global expansion of neoliberalism, critique…
Standardizing Knowledge in a Multicultural Society
Across the United States, in an attempt to raise standards for student learning, states have developed curriculum standards that specify what students are to learn. Raising standards has become synonymous with standardizing curriculum. This study critically examines the reading/language arts and history-social science standards documents in California to explore how the standards movement has reconfigured codes of power, and in whose interests. T…
Toward Teacher Education Research That Informs Policy
This article investigates the extent to which researchers are currently engaged in a shared research program that offers systematic evidence of the classroom impact of organized venues (preservice as well as inservice) for teacher professional learning. The article stems from concern about policies rooted in suspicion that teacher education is either ineffective or tangential to improving outcomes for students, as well as earlier findings that fa…
Critical Family History, Identity, and Historical Memory
Multicultural education as a social movement
resources such as jobs, power, and self-determination. Multicultural education became a body of advocacy regarding specific changes in classroom instruction (Gay, 1983). In the 1990s, however, one commonly finds multicultural education as it is practiced severed from any social movement. Rather than power and control being operative words, cross-cultural awareness is a common goal that one hears. In this article, I argue that multicultural educat…
Wrestling with problematics of whiteness in teacher education
Teacher education programs in countries where minoritized students1 experience systematic and persistent racial discrimination face tension between (1) producing teachers equipped to reverse discri
Advancing a White Discourse
Critical Family History
Critical family history challenges historians to ask about their ancestors. Who else (what other groups) was around, what were the power relationships among groups, how were these relationships maintained or challenged over time, and what does all this have to do with our lives now? These are different questions from the questions most family historians ask. This introductory essay elaborates on what critical family history is and where the conce…
Becoming white
Many teacher educators attempt to prompt teacher candidates, who are usually majority white, to examine themselves as culturally and historically located beings in order to prepare for multicultural and anti‐racist teaching. But with white teacher candidates in colonialist societies, this work is difficult. Family history stories that white teacher candidates tell tend to disassociate individuals from the context of race and class relations in wh…
Multiculturalism and education for citizenship in a context of neoliberalism
Multicultural education usually arises from a concern that schools prepare young people for constructive public participation as citizens in a diverse society that is struggling with equity issues. Conventional multicultural education, which I will critique, tends to assume a liberal conception of citizenship that is based on individualism and a simplistic analysis of how power works. I will argue that the growing reach of neoliberalism requires …
Decolonizing Curriculum
An essay review ofThe Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions(Allen, Paula Gunn. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986/1992)
Context-Conscious Portraits and Context-Blind Policy
Who determines teacher work
An Invitation To Support Diverse Students Through Teacher Education
This article invites candidates for president to strengthen teaching and teacher education for diverse students. The article first describes two remarkable teachers in California to illustrate what strong teaching of diverse students looks like. It then discusses what the diverse students of this nation need of teachers, including teachers with high expectations for student learning regardless of students' current performance, teachers who can en…
Interrogating Identity and Social Contexts Through “Critical Family History
Tracing one's family genealogy is a complex process that requires situating a family's narratives within a historical context. This article reviews the use of critical family history research in an undergraduate Asian American studies course to examine not only the diversity and experiences of Asian Americans but also the unspoken narratives that lead to the creation of a single story. We are told single stories that often neglect the sociocultur…
Restructuring Schools for Multicultural Education
A study of a 2-year staff development project in multicultural education that involved 30 teachers from 2 contiguous school districts is described. The discussion focuses on structural constraints to change, including time, class size, the required curriculum, the structure of programs, disjuncture between schools and communities, and the administrative and bureaucratic context of teacher work. An argument is made that staff development for multi…
Teaching Globalizaton
Dr. Angie Tran: So how is globalization different from internationalization? It is different qualitatively. Of course it's still expanding economic activities across national boundaries, like internationalization. But it is different qualitatively in the sense of the division of labor. Now core countries do not extract raw materials and foodstuffs from Third World countries, but instead, they subcontract different stages of production to Third Wo…
Doing multicultural education across the grade levels and subject areas
Who determines teacher work? The debate continues
Reprint
This article invites candidates for president to strengthen teaching and teacher education for diverse students. The article first describes two remarkable teachers in California to illustrate what strong teaching of diverse students looks like. It then discusses what the diverse students of this nation need of teachers, including teachers with high expectations for student learning regardless of students' current performance, teachers who can en…
Who determines teacher work
Race, Class, and Gender in an Urban School a Case Study
Pupils from a multiracial, multicultural community were relatively knowledgeable and accepting of differences. The school did little to increase either
An Analysis of Multicultural Education in the United States
The phrase "multicultural education" is used by a wide variety of educators and researchers in an equally wide variety of ways. In this article, Christine Sleeter and Carl Grant review literature which claims "multicultural education" as its subject; they argue that much of the existing literature addresses only limited aspects of multicultural education. The authors have developed a taxonomy by which to define the term, examine how it is used, a…
Who determines teacher work? The debate continues
Doing multicultural education across the grade levels and subject areas
The White Ethnic Experience in America
Restructuring Schools for Multicultural Education
A study of a 2-year staff development project in multicultural education that involved 30 teachers from 2 contiguous school districts is described. The discussion focuses on structural constraints to change, including time, class size, the required curriculum, the structure of programs, disjuncture between schools and communities, and the administrative and bureaucratic context of teacher work. An argument is made that staff development for multi…
Advancing a White Discourse
Advancing a White Discourse
Keepers of the American Dream
The American Dream in the 1980s staff development for multicultural education the teachers in their classrooms experiencing staff development looking for effects of staff development in the classroom a second year of staff development preserving the American Dream multicultural education, staff development and a new American Dream
No Bottom Line
Multicultural education as a social movement
resources such as jobs, power, and self-determination. Multicultural education became a body of advocacy regarding specific changes in classroom instruction (Gay, 1983). In the 1990s, however, one commonly finds multicultural education as it is practiced severed from any social movement. Rather than power and control being operative words, cross-cultural awareness is a common goal that one hears. In this article, I argue that multicultural educat…
Multicultural Education as Social Activism
Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia
Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City. Judith Goode and Jo Anne Schneider. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. 282 pp
Preparing Teachers for Culturally Diverse Schools
This article reviews data-based research studies on preservice teacher preparation for multicultural schools, particularly schools that serve historically underserved communities. In this article, the author reviews 80 studies of effects of various preservice teacher education strategies, including recruiting and selecting students, cross-cultural immersion experiences, multicultural education coursework, and program restructuring. Although there…
Teaching Globalizaton
Dr. Angie Tran: So how is globalization different from internationalization? It is different qualitatively. Of course it's still expanding economic activities across national boundaries, like internationalization. But it is different qualitatively in the sense of the division of labor. Now core countries do not extract raw materials and foodstuffs from Third World countries, but instead, they subcontract different stages of production to Third Wo…
Context-Conscious Portraits and Context-Blind Policy
Standardizing Knowledge in a Multicultural Society
Across the United States, in an attempt to raise standards for student learning, states have developed curriculum standards that specify what students are to learn. Raising standards has become synonymous with standardizing curriculum. This study critically examines the reading/language arts and history-social science standards documents in California to explore how the standards movement has reconfigured codes of power, and in whose interests. T…
Equity, democracy, and neoliberal assaults on teacher education
Critical Family History, Identity, and Historical Memory
An Invitation To Support Diverse Students Through Teacher Education
This article invites candidates for president to strengthen teaching and teacher education for diverse students. The article first describes two remarkable teachers in California to illustrate what strong teaching of diverse students looks like. It then discusses what the diverse students of this nation need of teachers, including teachers with high expectations for student learning regardless of students' current performance, teachers who can en…
Critical Multiculturalism
Introduction Multiculturalism has made less progress in science education compared with other curriculum areas, reflecting the abyss separating science and culture, and the adherence of school science to a traditional disciplinary view of the curriculum and the canonical science knowledge therein (Duschl, 1985). The nature of science knowledge, purposely aiming to exclude human dimensions such as aesthetics or history, precludes the options avail…
Probing Beneath Meanings of Multicultural Education
Around the world, interest in variations of multicultural education appears to be growing due to factors such as immigration and increased integration of the global economy. As terms like “culture” and “multicultural education” move from one national context to another, it is important to pay attention to the steering role that such terms play in framing problems, constructing discourse communities, and subsequently shaping practice in schools. I…
Decolonizing Curriculum
An essay review ofThe Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions(Allen, Paula Gunn. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986/1992)
News From The Name President
Sociology (42 works) · Pedagogy (34 works) · Psychology (25 works) · Political science (23 works) · Multicultural education (20 works) · Multiculturalism (20 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (18 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (14 works) · Mathematics education (14 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (13 works)