Publisher	Solution Tree Press
Publication Year	2011
ISBN-13	9781935542018
ISBN-10	9781935542018
Binding	Paperback
Edition	FIRST
Number of Pages	199 Pages
Language	(English)
Dimensions (Cms)	15 x 1 x 22
Weight (grms)	381

Ricardo L. Garcia

Ricardo L Garcia is a professor of education in the College of Education and Human Science of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Garcia began his education career in 1963 as a high school English and history teacher in northern New Mexico. Since then he has continuously served in classrooms as a teacher, consultant, storyteller, and professor. In 1973, Garci­a served as codirector for a Desegregation Teacher Training Institute at Kansas State University. Since then, he has conducted research and taught in multicultural teacher education. Garcia has tested his cross-cultural instructional theories by teaching on Native American reservations, in state penitentiaries, and by conducting bilingual family literacy programs. He also has served as a university department chair and as a central administrator of student affairs programs for students of color and disadvantaged youth. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters and one textbook, Teacher in a Pluralistic Society. In addition, he has authored four books of fiction: Coal Camp Days, 2001; Brother Bill s Bait Bites Back, 2004; Coal Camp Justice, 2005, and Montana s Top Bananas, 2007.