Christine Sleeter's Impact On Multicultural Education

Christine Sleeter’s has impacted the multicultural education world throughout the years, starting in the 1970s. She has emphasized multicultural education through teaching and learning race, class gender, language, and exceptionally while in the public schooling. Sleeter’s has did studies, researches in White teacher identity, and wrote books. For example, Sleeter has published 20 books that expand multicultural education, and her textbook Turning on Learning (Grant and Sleeter, 2009). Sleeter got her start in multicultural education when she got a job at a high school (in Seattle) where she was teaching World history to a group of students in a racially, ethnical diverse environment. By getting close to her students, Sleeter were able to develop a relationship with her students; this made
Sleeter believed that everybody needed to learn how to learn in somebody else’s community (page 12). Teachers should allow themselves go out in the community and learn something about it; social interaction can help you as a teacher to make teaching relevant to communities, studying from different traditions and perspectives, and continually changing yourself and your teaching (page 13). Christine Sleeter tips on teaching in diverse environments: get to know your students as a teacher, know something about the communities where your students come from, and interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Most importantly understand intellectual work on a topic at one level and the other level, and the instructional level that is the materials they use with the children (page 14). These tips will allow you to become a successful teacher and a teacher that knows what she is doing. Mrs. Sleeter made the mistake that many first time professors make, which is bombard information about White racism in a transmissivity way. The key is that white teacher must understand how race