Becoming Multicultural Educators offers teachers-- no matter what subject they teach or their level of expertise-- a unique resource for learning to become teachers who can work with students from a variety of ethnic, cultural, and social backgrounds. Through the lens of fourteen stories from teachers from different regions, cultures, and stages in life, this book reveals their unique challenges to grow personally as a requisite of multicultural teaching. These wonderful stories will inspire teachers to become more reflective and critically conscious about their own multicultural beliefs, experiences, and behaviors, and to develop their own personal and professional competence and confidence in multicultural education.

Geneva Gay is professor of education at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is nationally and internationally known for her scholarship in multicultural education. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including Culturally Responsive Teaching, which received the 2001 Outstanding Writing Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).

Preface.

The Authors.

1. Introduction: Planting Seeds to Harvest Fruits (Geneva Gay).

2. We Make the Road by Walking (John Ambrosio).

3. Crystallizing My Multicultural Education Core (Carolyn W. Jackson).

4. Conversations with Transformative Encounters (Audra L. Gray).

5. Making and Breaking Ethnic Masks (Jeannine E. Dingus).

6. Steppin' Up and Representin' (Kipchoge N. Kirkland).

7. Clearing Pathways for Children to Go Forth (S. Purcell Woodard).

8. Professional Actions Echo Personal Experiences (Chia-lin Huang).

9. Unifying Mind and Soul Through Cultural Knowledge and Self-Education (Patricia Espiritu Halagao).

10 Hanging Out with Ethnic Others (Mei-ying Chen).

11 Footsteps in the Dancing Zone (Mary Stone Hanley).

12 From Color Blindness to Cultural Vision (Laura Kay Neuwirth).

13 Navigating Marginality: Searching for My Own Truth (Yukari Takimoto Amos).

14 Teaching Them Through Who They Are (Terri L. Hackett).

Index.