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Anand Marri is Assistant Professor of Social Studies and Education in the Department of Arts and Humanities at Teachers College, Columbia University. Marri, a native of India, received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied Curriculum and Instruction in Social Studies Education, Technology in Education and Multicultural Education. Prior to UW-Madison, he received an A.M. in Education with a teaching credential from Stanford University and an A.B. in Government and Legal Studies from Bowdoin College. He specializes in theories of multicultural democracy and how language arts and social studies concepts can be used together in the classroom. His current research, entitled the Connecting Democracy and Diversity Project, examines the ways in which students can be better educated for active citizenship in a multicultural United States society by integrating the goals of citizenship education and multicultural education. In addition, Marri also critically examines the uses of technology in urban schools. He recently received 2004-2005 Faculty Diversity Fellowship Grant and Teachers College 2003-2004 Dean's Grant for Pre-Tenured and Non-Tenure Track Faculty.
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Marri, A. (2005). Building a framework for classroom-based multicultural democratic education (CMDE): Learning from three skilled teachers. Teachers College Record, 104, 1036-1059.
Marri, A. (2005). Educational technology as a tool for multicultural democratic education: The case of one US history teacher in an under-resourced high school. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 4, 395-409. Available: http://www.citejournal.org/
Marri. A. (2003). Multicultural democracy: Toward a better democracy. Intercultural Education, 14, 263-277.
Marri, A. (2003). Social studies, race, and the World Wide Web. In G. Ladson-Billings (Ed.), Critical race theory perspectives on the social studies: The profession, policies, and curriculum (pp. 247-269). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Hess, D. & Marri, A. (2002). Which cases should we teach? Social Education, 66, 53-59.