James A. Banks

James A. Banks holds the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies and is Founding Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. He was the Russell F. Stark University Professor at the University of Washington from 2001 to 2006. He has written or edited 20 books in multicultural education and in social studies education. Professor Banks was president of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) in 1982 and president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 1997-1998. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. A former elementary school teacher, Professor Banks received his Bachelor's degree in elementary education and social science from Chicago State University and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in these fields from Michigan State University.

Selected Articles

Cultural Democracy, Citizenship Education, and the American Dream (1983). Social Education, Vol. 47 (3), 178-179, ff 222-232. [National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Presidential address].

The Canon Debate, Knowledge Construction, and Multicultural Education (1993). Educational Researcher, Vol. 22 (5), 4-14.

The Historical Reconstruction of Knowledge about Race: Implications for Transformative Teaching (1995). Educational Researcher, Vol. 24 (2), 15-25.

The Lives and Values of Researchers: Implications for Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society (1998). Educational Researcher, Vol. 27 (7), 4-17. [American Educational Research Association (AERA) Presidential Address].

Race, Knowledge Construction, and Education in the USA: Lessons from History (2002). Race, Ethnicity and Education, Vol. 5 (1), 7-27.

Diversity, Group Identity, and Citizenship Education in a Global Age (2008). Educational Researcher, 37, (3), 129-139.

Selected Books

(With Cherry A. McGee Banks & Ambrose A. Clegg). Teaching Strategies for the Social Studies: Decision-Making and Citizen Action (5th edition). New York: Longman.

Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum and Teaching (4th Edition, 2006). Boston: Allyn and Bacon Pearson.

Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society (2nd Edition, 2007). New York: Teachers College Press.

Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies (8th Edition, 2009). Boston: Pearson Allyn and Bacon.

Race, Culture, and Education: The Selected Works of James A. Banks. London & New York, 2006.

Selected Edited Books

(With James Lynch). Multicultural Education in Western Societies. London: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1986.

Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge, and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.

Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspective. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.

(with Cherry A. McGee Banks). Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (2nd edition, 2004). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

(with Cherry A. McGee Banks). Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives (7th Edition, 2010). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education. New York & London: Routledge, 2009.

Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education (4 volumes)(2012). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Editor, Multicultural Education Series (1996-). A series of books published by Teachers College Press, Columbia University. Forty-six books had been published in the Series in July, 2012.

Awards and Honors

Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.), Bank Street College of Education, 1993

American Educational Research Association Research (AERA) Research Review Award, 1994

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) Presidents’ Award, 1998

Doctor of Letters (L.D.), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2000

Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.), University of Wisconsin-Parkside, 2001

Jean Dresden Grambs Distinguished Career Research in Social Studies Award, National Council for the Social Studies, 2001

Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.), DePaul University, Chicago, 2003

Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.), Lewis and Clark College, 2004

Inaugural Recipient of the Social Justice in Education Award, American Educational Research Association (AREA), 2004

The UCLA Medal, University of California Los Angeles, 2005

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 2005-2006.

References

Arnove, Robert (2010). Book Review: The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education. Comparative Education Review, 54 (3), 429-432.

Dimitriadis, Greg., Sleeter, Christine & Dolby, Nadine. (2007). Review Symposium: Race, Culture, and Education: The Selected Works of James A. Banks. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 28 (2), 259-271.

Johnson, Lauri., Luciak, Mikael, & van Driel, Barry. (2010). Review Symposium: The Routledge Companion to Multicultural Education. Race Ethnicity and Education, 13 (4), 549-561.

Powers, Thomas F. (2002). Postmodernism and James A. Banks’ Multiculturalism: The Limits of Intellectual History. Educational Theory, Vol. 52 (2), 209-221.

External links

• Professor James A. Banks, University of Washington, Seattle
• James Albert Banks (1941–) by Anita Rao Mysore, The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture Project
• Professor James A. Banks Encourages Educating Students to Be Global Citizens in the Annual Ridley Lecture at the University of Virginia