Faculty Vita

Christine Bennett, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

"Research on Racial Issues in American Higher Education" (In Press). Chapter in James A. Banks and Cherry M. Banks (Eds.) Handbook on Research in Multicultural Education 2nd Edition. New York: Macmillan.

Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice (2003). Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Third edition. (5th Edition)

"Enhancing Ethnic Diversity at a Big Ten University Through Project TEAM: A Case Study in Teacher Education," (2002) Educational Researcher, 31(2), 21-29.

"Genres of Research in Multicultural Education," (2001) Review of Education Research, 71(2). 1-44.

"Preparing Teachers of Color at a Predominantly White University: A Case Study of Project TEAM" (2000). Teaching and Teacher Education, (2000) 16, 445-464. With Darnell Cole and Jean-Noel Thompson.

"Teacher Perspectives as a Tool for Reflection, Partnerships and Professional Growth." (1999). In: A-y Chen and J. Van Moonen (Eds.) The Reflective Spin: Case Studies of Teachers in Higher Education Transforming Action. Singapore: World Scientific.

"How Can Teacher Perspectives Affect Teacher Decision Making?" (1997). D.M. Byrd & D.J. McIntyre (Eds.) Research on the Education of Our Nation's Teachers: Teacher Education Yearbook V, Corwin Press, pp. 75-91.

Funded Projects

Project TEAM: A Program to Continue and Expand Project TEAM to Recruit Talented Minority Students into the Field of Teaching. Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education (Congressional Award). 6/1/2002-6/31/2003 ($675,00)

Project TEAM: A Program to Encourage Minority Students to Become Teachers. Fund for Improvement of Education (Congressional Award), 4/01/01-3/31/02 ($340,000)

Enhancing Teachers' and Students' Technological Proficiency Through Project TEAM, The Eisenhower Professional Development Program, School of Education, and Office of Student Development and Diversity. 1/01/00-5/31/01 ($164,850)

Project TEAM: A Program to Recruit Students of Color into Teaching. Indiana University, Strategic Directions Charter, and School of Education, 5/1996-6/2000. ($650,000)

The Teacher as Decision Maker Program (TADMP) Three-Year Renewal, Lilly Endowment, Inc. 5/93-8/96. ($570,782)

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

American Association of College Teachers of Education (AACTE), Publications Committee (2000-2003).

National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME). Editorial Review Board (1999-present).

American Educational Research Association (AERA), Divisions G and K, Special Interest Groups on Urban Education and Social Studies Education.

National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and College and University Faculty Association (CUFA).

Conference Presentations

A Study of Career Changes During Their First Three Years of Teaching." Symposium paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, April 1992.

"Seven Teacher Perspectives: A Longitudinal Study of Connections Between Teachers' Thoughts and Actions." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, Chicago, IL, April, 1992. (with Liz Spalding).

"Teaching The Social Studies: Multiple Approaches For Multiple Perspectives." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, Chicago, April 1992 (with Liz Spalding).

"The Development of Professional Knowledge Schemata and Teaching Perspectives Among Career - Change Preservice Teachers." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Boston, April 1990.

"Preservice Multicultural Teacher Education: Predictors of Student Readiness." (with Tim Niggle and Frances Stage). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, March 1989.

"Tests of a Conceptual Model of Black Student Attrition: A Follow-Up Study at Indiana University of Black, Hispanic, and White Undergraduates" (with Alton Okinaka). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, March 1989.

"Toward a Synergistic Model to Strengthen Global and Multicultural Education." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty (CUFA) of the National Council of the Social Studies (NCSS), Orlando, Florida, November 18, 1988.

"The Effects of a Multicultural Education Course on Preservice Teachers' Attitudes, Knowledge and Behavior, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, 1988.

Service/Outreach Projects

Director of Project TEAM (1996-Present).

Director of the Research Institute on Teacher Education, Indiana University (1994-1998).

Professor of Social Studies and Multicultural Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, Indiana University at Bloomington (1976 - present).

Director of The Teacher as Decision Maker Program, a graduate level teacher certification program for career change individuals supported by the Lilly Endowment Inc., School of Education, Indiana University at Bloomington (1987-96).