Book Talks

The Center for Multicultural Education's 21st Book Talk: Citizenship Education and Global Migration: Implications for Theory, Research, and Teaching featuring Kogila Moodley, Walter C. Parker, & James A. Banks (Editor).

This groundbreaking book describes theory, research, and practice that can be used in civic education courses and programs to help students from marginalized and minoritized groups in nations around the world attain a sense of structural integration and political efficacy within their nation-states, develop civic participation skills, and reflective cultural, national, and global identities. This book describes the problems that 18 nations around the world are experiencing trying to create and implement effective civic education programs for students from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic groups and case studies of effective ways that teachers and other educators are working to resolve these problems.

Kogila Moodley is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, where she was the first holder of the David Lam Chair in Multiculturalism.
Walter C. Parker is Professor of Social Studies Education and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. He studies civic education and global education in schools and the depth-breadth problem in curriculum development.
James A. Banks is the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research focuses on multicultural education and diversity and citizenship education in a global context.

October 20th, 2017

11 A.M. to 12:30 P.M

Yukon Pacific Room

University of Washington Club, Seattle Campus

Charles Hirschman, From High School to College: Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Race-Ethnicity

April 7, 2017

Charles Hirschman is Boeing International Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and Governance at the University of Washington. He will talk about his new book, From High School to College: Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Race-Ethnicity, in the Center for Multicultural Education's 20th Book Talk. Hirschman illuminates how gender, immigration, and ethnicity influence the path to college graduation.  He analyzes the period between leaving high school and completing college for nearly 10,000 public and private school students across the Pacific Northwest. Hirschman finds that although there are few gender, racial, or immigration-related disparities in students’ aspirations to attend and complete college, certain groups succeed at the highest rates. With a growing number of young adults seeking college degrees, understanding the barriers that different students encounter provides vital information for social scientists and educators. The lecture will be followed by a book signing.

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Friday, April 7, 2017

Yukon Pacific Room, University of Washington Club

University of Washington, Seattle Campus

Charles Hirschman is the Boeing International Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and Governance at the University of Washington.  In addition to his long-standing interests on social and demographic change in Southeast Asia, he has published extensively on immigration, ethnic inequality, and education.  He has been elected President of the Population Association of America (2005), Chair of Section K (Social, Economic, and Political Sciences) of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (2004-05), and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Washington State Academy of Sciences.  He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (1993-94), the Russell Sage Foundation (1998- 99), and a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice

February 10, 2017

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Wasserman Dean of Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California at Los Angeles, will talk about his co-edited book, Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice (James A. Banks, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, and Miriam Ben-Peretz, Editors). Mass migration and globalization are creating new and deep challenges to education systems the world over. In this volume, some of the world's leading researchers in multicultural education and immigration discuss critical issues related to cultural sustainability, structural inclusion, and social cohesion. In this book talk, Dean Suárez-Orozco will describe how global migration is forcing nation-states to reexamine and reinvent the ways in which they socialize and educate diverse groups for citizenship and civic engagement. He will also address how schools can help migrant and immigrant groups attain the knowledge, values, and skills required to become fully participating citizens, while retaining important aspects of their home, community, languages, and culture. 

11:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M.
Friday, February 10th, 2017
Yukon Pacific Room, University of Washington Club

University of Washington, Seattle

Book signing to follow

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is the Wasserman Dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. His research focuses on cultural psychology and psychological anthropology, with an emphasis on mass migration, globalization, and education. Dean Suárez-Orozco, while at Harvard, was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Culture, Founder and Director of the Harvard Immigration Projects, and founding Member of the Executive Committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. He was the in-augural Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU. He has held fellowships at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. He has been a Visiting Professor in Paris, Barcelona, and Leuven and has lec-tured at the German Foreign Office, the Mexican Foreign Office, the Spanish Foreign Office, The Vatican, US Congress, the UN, and Davos. He is the co-author, along with Carola Suárez-Orozco, of a number of seminal publications including Transformations: Immigration, Family Life and Achievement Motivation among Latino Adolescents and Children of Immigration.

Dorothy Steele and Becki Cohn-Vargas, Identity Safe Classrooms: Places to Belong and Learn

February 21, 2014

Drs. Steele and Cohn-Vargas described their book, Identity safe classrooms: Places to belong and learn. This evidence-based book describes a set of strategies that have a positive effect on student learning and attachment to schooling. It describes how  to build communities of learners in diverse classrooms. Identity safe classrooms are those in which teachers strive to ensure students that their social identities are an asset rather than a barrier to success in the classroom. Acknowledging students’ identities, rather than trying to be colorblind, can build the foundation for strong positive relationships. This, coupled with challenging opportunities to learn, can help all students begin to feel they are welcomed, supported, and valued as members of the learning community. Video»

Shirley Brice Heath, Words at Work and Play: Three Decades in Families and Communities

May, 2012

Linguistic anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath read from and spoke about her new book, Words at work and play: Three decades in families and communities. Words tells the long-awaited story of what has happened to the families that readers met back in 1983 in Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms (1983/1996). The new work gives a gives a close-up picture of how families from Roadville and Trackton spent their time through the 1980s, 1990s, and through the first decade of the 21st century. Through multi-site ethnographic methods, Heath tracked the patterns of talking, managing new technologies, and altering ways of using time and space of families as they faced the roller-coaster economic changes that followed the double-dip recession of the 1980s. Video »

Wayne Au, Critical Curriculum Studies: Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing

November 18, 2011

In his latest book, Critical Curriculum Studies: Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing, Wayne Au offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students' understanding of the world around them.Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social justice to argue for a transformative curriculum that challenges existing inequity in social, educational, and economic relations. Making use of the work of important scholars such as Freire, Vygotsky, Hartsock, Harding, and others, Critical Curriculum Studies, argues that we must understand the relationship between the curriculum and the types of consciousness we carry out into the world. More »

Tyrone Howard, Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools

March, 2011

In his new book,  Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America's Classrooms, Professor Howard describes the changing racial, ethnic, and cultural demographics in U.S. schools and calls for educators to pay serious attention to how race and culture play out in school settings. Video »