Dictionary of Multicultural Education

Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom professor of teacher education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and a professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written and edited 17 books and monographs in multicultural education and/or teacher education. These include Research and Multicultural Education (1993), Making Choices for Multicultural Education (with Christine E. Sleeter, 1994), After the School Bell Rings (2nd ed.) (with Christine E. Sleeter, 1995), and Educating for Diversity (1993). He has also written more than 100 articles, chapters in books, and reviews. Several of his writings and programs that he directed have received awards. He is a former classroom teacher and administrator.Gloria Ladson-Billings is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ladson-Billings earned her PhD in curriculum and teacher education at Standford University in 1984. Prior to attending Stanford, she earned a masters' degree in education at the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, and an undergraduate degree in education at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.

• List of Terms Contributors Foreword Preface Introduction Terms Appendix A: A Sampler of Multicultural Education Resources Index

"Grant and Ladson-Billings (both Univ. of Wisconsin) demonstrate the breadth of their familiarity with multicultural concepts in this dictionary. . . . Definitions are short, clear, and thorough." - Choice