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Dr. Christopher Knaus
Christopher Knaus, Ph.D.
Associate professor
Department of Educational Leadership
College of Education and Allied Studies
California State University, East Bay
Ph.D.
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Born and raised in rural poverty, I knew early on in my education that schools were preparing me to drop out ignorant of the systemic racism and violence that surrounded me. Eventually, I navigated my way through to my doctorate, struggling to understand why our schools and colleges are so exclusive, socially aloof, and distant from what happens in most rural and urban communities. I earned my bachelor's degree from UC Davis in Communication and studied stereotypes in film and mass media. I earned my Master's degree from Washington State University in Communication and studied intercultural communication and health communication. My master's thesis was an analysis of the impact of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Education and studied educational policy and multicultural education. My dissertation was an analysis of multiracial students and their struggles going through our racially divisive, monoracially-framed schools and colleges. And now I teach and learn about how we can develop critical, culturally rooted voice in urban schools. I strive to help us all listen to urban youth and those who are structurally excluded, because those who are not allowed access to shaping our schools often have the most insight. And I like to cook ridiculously tasty food that reflects the struggles of people around the world. Because without voice, we are just numbers. And without food that stems from those who came before us, our voices remain hungry.
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Biographical Sketch |
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My research focuses in three interrelated arenas: 1) Understanding how local, state, and federal educational policies shape (and most often limit) educational equity in urban schools; 2) Understanding the impact of developing a critical, culturally rooted voice in urban students, particularly when those youth are afforded opportunities to express themselves fully as part of an academic curriculum; and 3) Understanding how to apply critical race theory to student experiences, the classroom, and policy-level analyses in a way that demonstrates critical race theory's ability to shift research on education to focus entirely on those most excluded.
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Research Agenda |
Stagnant Transformation: Racial Inequalities in South African Schools, Fulbright Award, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, , Received May 1, 2011, $80,000, For July 1, 2011 to June 1, 2012, Research racism in South African schools
Teach Tomorrow in Oakland, Oakland Unified School District, Transition to Teaching, Department of Education, Received October 1, 2009, 2.2 Million, For October 1, 2009 to August 1, 2014, Recruit and retain outstanding local educators
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Grant Awards |
C. B. Knaus (2012). Teaching for Voice: Instructional Strategies for Empowering Youth. Multicultural Education in Practice: Transforming Communities One at a Time. CABE.
C. B. Knaus and R. Rogers-Ard (2012). Educational Genocide: Examining the Impact of National Education Policy on African Americans. ECI Interdisciplinary Journal for Legal and Social Policy. (Available at: http://ecipublications.org/ijlsp/vol2/iss1/1). ECI Interdisciplinary Journal for Legal and Social Policy: Vol. 2(1).
R. Rogers-Ard, C. B. Knaus, K. K. Epstein, & K. Mayfield (2012). Rogers-Ard, R., Knaus, C. B., Epstein, K. K., & Mayfield, K. Racial Diversity Sounds Nice; Systems Transformation, Not so Much! Developing Teachers of Color. Urban Education.
C. B. Knaus (2011). Shut Up and Listen: Teaching Writing that Counts to Urban Students. Book. New York: Peter Lang.
C. B. Knaus (2011). One Size Never Fits All: Why Standardized Student Assessments Should Not Guide Curriculum and Instruction. Debating Issues in American Education. (Vol. 2, p. 64-71). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
C. B. Knaus (2010). From SNCC to Black Studies: The Intellectual Odyssey of Hardy Frye. In R. Williams (Ed.), Forty and Counting: An Anthology Commemorating Four Decades of the African American Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley. (47-53). UC Berkeley.
C. B. Knaus (2009). Shut up and listen: Applied critical race theory in the classroom. Race, Ethnicity, and Education, 12(2). (133-154).
C. B. Knaus (2007). Still Segregated, Still Unequal: Analyzing the Impact of No Child Left Behind on African American Students. State of Black America, 2007. National Urban League.
C. B. Knaus (2007). Those Aren't Options: Examining the Impact of No Child Left Behind's Parental Involvement Provisions. Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity. University of California.
C. B. Knaus (2006). Race, Racism, and Multiraciality in American Education. Book. (500 p.) Academica Press.
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Publications |
Fostering Movements or Silencing Voices? Questioning the Role of Education in Egypt and South Africa, November 30, 2012, Philadelphia, National Association of Multicultural Education
Stagnant Transformation: Integrating Community Leadership into Educational Reform Efforts, March 15, 2012, Durban, South Africa, South African Basic Education Conference
“I might have stayed in school if my teachers were from the ‘hood”: Developing Urban Educators of Color in Racist Educational Systems. Presented to Breaking Barriers 2: Teacher Preparation and the Future of School-Age Black Males, April 28, 2011, New Orleans, American Educational Research Association
Critical Race Theory in Education: Creating a Local, Diverse, Permanent Teaching Workforce, March 21, 2010, Washington DC, Effective Pathways to Teaching Conference
Critical Race Theory in Education: Community Resistance through Sustained Collaboration, December 5, 2009, Chicago, IL, International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice
Aint Always About the Teacher: Centering Student Voice in Educational Reform., October 30, 2009, Denver, CO, National Association for Multicultural Education
Resisting Racism through Developing Voice, October 11, 2008, San Francisco, Teachers 4 Social Justice
Analyzing the Impact of No Child Left Behind on African American Students, April 1, 2007, Sacramento, CA, Greater Sacramento Urban League Annual State of Black America
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Journal or Conference Reviews for: National Association for Multicultural Education American Educational Research Association International Journal of Multicultural Education Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis Education and Urban Studies Urban Education
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