Sociální pedagogika | Social Education 75
Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 75–76, November 2016
ISSN 1805-8825
Guest of the Journal
Profile in Multicultural Education – Carl A. Grant
Carl A. Grant is a Hoefs-Bascom Professor of teacher education in the Department of Curriculum and
Instruction at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His work for more than thirty years has been
with teachers and administrators who commit to improve students’ achievement, enrich their
knowledge and skill set in multicultural social justice, culturally responsive curriculum development,
and teaching. He has written several books and many articles for teachers that address student
achievement, curriculum development, teaching strategies, and parent-teacher engagement.
In addition to his scholarly work, Carl Grant is perhaps best known for being instrumental in his role
as president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) from 1993 to 1999.
During his tenure, he helped NAME establish itself as a national and international presence, opening
an office in Washington, D.C., hiring its first executive director, developing a professional journal, and
nurturing an annual conference on multicultural education attended by the top scholars and
multicultural educators from around the world.
Among his many honors, the Association of Teacher Educators selected Dr. Grant as one of 70
Leaders in Teacher Education in 1990. Also that year, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award
from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Also from AERA, he became a
Distinguished Fellow in 2009, and received the Mentoring Award in 2011 and Social Justice in
Education Award in 2010. Grant’s outstanding achievements in multicultural education research are
honored by NAME through the Carl A. Grant Research Award given at its annual conference.
He has mentored many in the field today and continues to contribute his time and talents in the
interest of educational equity and social justice. NAME and multicultural educators everywhere owe
a debt to Carl Grant for his leadership in the field. Thought his advocacy and stewardship, he has
brought multicultural education to the forefront of modern education.
Guest of the Journal / Profile in Multicultural Education
The most important contribution to the field of multicultural education is according to Carl Grant
simply stated ,“ in my eyes, service to the field is my biggest and most important contribution to
multicultural education”.
Carl A. Grant has given invited lectures for both national and international audiences, and written or
edited more than 48 books and more than 175 articles and chapters. He is the author of
Multiculturalism in Education and Teaching: The selected works of Carl A. Grant (2015); Doing
Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity (2011); Intercultural and Multicultural
Education: Enhancing Global Interconnectedness (2010); Making Choices for Multicultural Education:
Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender, 6th Ed. (2009); Teach! Change! Empower! Solutions for
Closing the Achievement Gaps (2009); Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural
Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability (2009); Learning to Teach Everyone’s Children:
Equity, Empowerment, and Education That Is Multicultural (2006) and many more (Carl A. Grantś
books can be found here).
Carl A. Grant is also the 2014 recipient of Loyola University Chicago's Damen Award from the School
of Education (see Youtube).