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 Born September 24th, 1941.  Grew up as an African American in Arkansas during the time of the Jim Crow laws.  He walked 5 miles to get a formal education.

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2  Born September 24th, 1941.  Grew up as an African American in Arkansas during the time of the Jim Crow laws.  He walked 5 miles to get a formal education at the McCullough Union School.  He graduated from Robert Russa Moton High School in 1960.  He obtained his associates degree 3 years later. Along with a bachelor's degree in elementary education and social science with honors the following year.  He went on to receive his masters degree and PhD in these fields from Michigan State University.  Banks married Cherry A. McGee February 15, 1969.  He became the first black professor in the College of Education at UW, as well as the founding director of UW's Center for Multicultural Education.

3  father of multi-cultural education  developed countless concepts, approaches, and principles of curriculum for educators across the nation to help them teach a multicultural nation.  developed techniques for teaching and assessing specific ethnic groups.  has helped start a movement to reform textbooks so that they include the perspective of different cultures, not just the dominant one.

4 5 dimensions of Multicultural Education  content integration  knowledge construction  equity pedagogy  prejudice reduction  empowering school culture and social structure

5  New Zealand, December 17, 1908 - April 28, 1984  Mother was a teacher, father stayed home (suffered from rheumatoid arthritis), nine children  Pursued teaching although she was more interested in the arts  Not wholeheartedly attracted to teaching at first because of mother's neglect and strictness  Determined to find a motherly and loving figure - eventually desired to BE that for students

6  There was a movie made about Sylvia and her life called “Sylvia.”  Her famous book Teacher, expresses her ideas for education.  Sylvia broke free from the traditional methods of teaching.  Ashton-Warner used physical nurturing of students.  She wrote many other short stories that became well known throughout New Zealand and the rest of the world.  She is most famous and known for her educational methods that she wrote in her 1963 thesis called Teacher.

7 The attainment of literacy can be, and should be, intricately tied to personal, social, and political liberation  Freire was born September 19, 1921 in Recife, Brazil  1944, he married Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, a fellow teacher  1962 Freire taught the sugarcane workers of Angicos, South America  1964, a military coup imprisoned Friere as a "traitor" for 70 days  Freire exiled himself to Bolivia  1967, Freire published Education as the Practice of Freedom  He followed this with Pedagogy of the Oppressed  1979, he was able to return to Brazil  1986, his wife Elza died  Freire remarried to Maria Araújo  Freire died of Congestive heart failure on May 2, 1997

8  Inspired others to follow Liberation Theology/Social Reconstructionism  Taught and inspired others to teach reading and writing to oppressed peoples  Believed that teachers must also learn with the students  Appointed for several high educational advising and directing positions throughout his life for his work http://www.freireproject.org/content/intro-video Teaching Reading and Writing: A.Employ “ generative words ” B.Accompany these words with pictures or “ codes ” C.Learner ’ s directed to a syllabic family in a word list D.Words are written on a board and learner ’ s are encouraged to discuss these words with their world


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