Michael Vavrus is a faculty member at
The Evergreen State College
The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1967, it offers a non-traditional undergraduate curriculum in which students have the option to design their own study towards a degree or follow a p ...
in
Olympia, Washington
Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and largest city of Thurston County. It is southwest of the state's most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region.
European ...
in the areas of
teacher education
Teacher education or teacher training refers to programs, policies, procedures, and provision designed to equip (prospective) teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, approaches, methodologies and skills they require to perform their ...
and
political economy
Political economy is the study of how Macroeconomics, economic systems (e.g. Marketplace, markets and Economy, national economies) and Politics, political systems (e.g. law, Institution, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied ph ...
. He is the past president of the Washington Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education. He is also the past director of the Masters in Teaching Program at The Evergreen State College, and the founding past president of
CommonAction.
[(nd]
Board of Directors
. CommonAction. Retrieved 7/6/07
Vavrus is the author of ''Transforming the Multicultural Education of Teachers: Theory, Research, and Practice.'', which was published by Teachers College Press in 2002.
Publications
* (Forthcoming)
Sexuality, schooling, and teacher identity formation: A critical pedagogy for teacher education" ''Teaching and Teacher Education''.
* (2002)
Transforming the Multicultural Education of Teachers: Theory, Research, and Practice.' Teachers College Press.
* (2001)
Deconstructing the Multicultural Animus Held by Monoculturalists" ''Journal of Teacher Education 52''(1). pp. 70–77.
* (1999) "Weaving the Web of Democracy: Confronting Conflicting Expectations for Teachers and Schools," with Walton, S., Kido, J., Diffendal, E., King, P. ''Journal of Teacher Education. 50''.
* (1997) "Multicultural Content Infusion by Student Teachers" with Ozcan, M. in Dilworth, M. (ed) ''Being Responsive to Cultural Differences: How Teachers Learn.'' Corwin Press.
* (1994) "A critical analysis of multicultural education infusion during student teaching," ''Action in Teacher Education. XVI.'' pp. 46–57.
* (1993) ''Proceedings from A Critical Social Perspective on Serving Today's Children and Youth: The Experience of a Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges.'' A Symposium Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (San Diego, California, February 24–27, 1993). .
* (1989) "Alienation as the Conceptual Foundation for Incorporating Teacher Empowerment into the Teacher Education Knowledge Base" in Carbone, M. (ed) ''Proceedings of the National Forum of the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education'' (3rd, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 2–4, 1989).
References
External links
* Kennet, C
* Michael Vavrus'
ttp://www.michaelvavrus.com/ Website
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American education writers
Evergreen State College faculty
People from Moline, Illinois
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)