James Banks

James Banks, professor in the School of Education, University of Washington-Seattle, emphasizes that culturally responsive education is as important for homogeneous, white schools as it is for schools serving students from many cultural backgrounds. Excerpted from NCREL's video, Many Voices, Many Dreams (1995).

"If we're going to live in a world where there's a diversity of languages and diversity of cultures and we're going to make it as a civic community, we all must learn to live together and multicultural educational is needed as much by the white suburban child as it is by the black, inner city child let's say in Chicago or New York."

This Critical Issue summary was researched and written by Kent Peterson, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Date posted: 1995