(NAME-MCE) Free copy of "The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity."

[Bill Howe]

13th Annual New England Conference on *Multicultural Education (NECME)
*Connecticut Convention Center Wednesday,  October 8, 2008
Hartford, Connecticut
Call for Proposals <http://www.necme.org/CallProposals.htm> - www.necme.org

*deadline April 11, 2008*
**

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carlos E. Cortés
*"Multicultural Education: Building a More Inclusive American Future*
*The first 500 conference  participants to arrive will receive a free
copyof "The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about
Diversity."
**Dr. Cortés will be doing a Book Signing.
*
  Dr. Carlos E. Cortés is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of
California, Riverside.  Since 1990 he has served on the summer faculty of
the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, since 1995 has served on the
faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, and since
1999 has been an adjunct faculty member of the Federal Executive Institute.


*     Two of his most recent books, The Children Are Watching: How the Media
Teach about Diversity and The Making -- and Remaking -- of a
Multiculturalist, were published by Teachers College Press, while he is
co-author of the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies series and senior
consultant for the McDougal Littell World History series.  Cortés serves as
Creative/Cultural Advisor for Nickelodeon's Peabody-award-winning children's
television series, "Dora the Explorer," and its sequel, "Go, Diego, Go!,"
and he also performs his one-person, autobiographical play, A Conversation
with Alana: One Boy's Multicultural Rite of Passage.  His recent honors
include the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators'
Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award, the California
Association for Bilingual Education's Inspiration Award, and the University
of California, Riverside's Emeritus Professor of the Year Award.  *

*     The recipient of two book awards, Cortés' publications include Three
Perspectives on Ethnicity, Gaúcho Politics in Brazil, and Beyond Language:
Social and Cultural Factors in Schooling Language Minority Students, while
he has edited three major book series, totaling 106 volumes, on Latinos in
the United States.  He also received his university's Distinguished Teaching
Award and Faculty Public Service Award, the Distinguished California
Humanist Award, the American Society for Training and Development's National
Multicultural Trainer of the Year Award, and the California Council for the
Social Studies' Hilda Taba Award, and was selected by the Smithsonian
Institution to be a Public Lecturer.*

*     A consultant to many government agencies, school systems,
universities, mass media, private businesses, and other organizations,
Cortés has lectured widely throughout the United States, Latin America,
Europe, Asia, and Australia on the implications of diversity for education,
government, and private business.  He has also written film and television
documentaries, appeared as guest host on the PBS national television series,
"Why in the World?," and is the featured presenter on the Video Journal of
Education's training video, "Diversity in the Classroom."  *

-- 
Bill Howe

**New England Conference on Multicultural Education - http://www.necme.org