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June A. Gordon

June A. Gordon   
    Title:  Professor of Education
    Specialization:  Social Context
    Email:  jagordon@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-3234 Office
    Office:  Social Sciences 1, 237
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009 Quarter:Tuesdays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:00

Education History 

B.A., East Asian Studies
Stanford University

M.Ed., Adult Education
Western Washington University

Ph.D., Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
University of Washington

Courses Taught 

EDUC 170 Schooling and Asian Cultures


EDUC 207 Social Foundations of Education


EDUC 164 Urban Education


EDUC 128- Immigrants and Education


EDUC 281 Social Cultural Perspectives on Education


EDUC 268 Comparative and International Education


Research Focus 
Cultural and economic factors in academic access and achievement at all levels of schooling; recruiting and preparing teachers from diverse communities; schooling and teaching careers for working-class and cultural-minority students in Britain, Japan, China and the United States.

Selected Publications 

Japan’s Outcaste Youth: Education for Liberation: Paradigm Publishing, 2008.

"Community Responsive Schools, Mixed Housing, and Community Regeneration.” Journal of Education Policy(U.K.), 23(2), 181-192, 2008.

“Transnational Migration and Identity: Brazil and Japan Share a Work Force,” Chapter to be published in Jörn Dosch and Olaf Jacob, (Eds.), Asia and Latin America: The Encounter of Two Continents. Political, Economic and Social Dynamics. Routledge, 2008.

“Assigned to the Margins: Teachers for Immigrant Communities in Japan,” in E. A. Anteliz, P. N. Coombes & P. A. Danaher (Eds.), Special theme issue: “Marginalised Pedagogues?: International Studies of the Work and Identities of Contemporary Educators Teaching 'Minority' Learners.” Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies (Australia), 22 (7), 766-776. 2006.

“From Liberation to Human Rights: Challenges for Teachers of the Burakumin in Japan,” Race, Ethnicity and Education(U.K.), 9 (2), 183-202, 2006.

“The Crumbling Pedestal: Changing Images of Japanese Teachers,” Journal of Teacher Education, 56 (5), 459-470. 2005.

“Inequities in Japanese Urban Schools,” The Urban Review, 37 (1), 49-62. 2005.

“In Search of Teachers and Administrators of Color,” Leadership: Association of California School Administrators, 34 (2), November/December, 30-35. 2005.

Mainoritei to Kyooiku [Minorities and Education]. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2004. Translation by Mamoru Tsukada of The Color of Teaching.

“Who is Willing - and Able - to Become a Teacher?” Race Equality Teaching(U.K.), 21,(3), 28-31, 2003.

“A Shoelace Left Untied: Teachers Confront Class and Ethnicity in a City of Northern England.” The Urban Review, 35:(3), 191-215, 2003.

Beyond the Classroom Walls: Ethnographic Inquiry as Pedagogy. London: Routledge Falmer, 2002.

“From Gangs to the Academy: Scholars Emerge by Reaching Back through Critical Ethnography.” Social Justice, 29(4), 71-81, 2002.

“Immigrants and Education: Dialogic Inquiry as Pedagogy.” Teaching Sociology, 30(3), 278-290, 2002.

“African Americans and the Choice to Teach.” Chapter Five in Nata, R. (Ed.) Progress in Education, Vol. 4, Nova Science Publishers, 97-110, 2001.

The Color of Teaching. London and New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2000.

“Asian American Resistance to Selecting Teaching as a Career: The Power of Community and Tradition.” Teachers College Record, 102(1), 173-196, 2000.

“A Critical Interpretation of Policies for Minority Culture College Students.” NACADA Journal (National Academic Advising Association), 17(1), 15-21,1997.

“Teachers of Color Speak to Issues of Respect and Image.” The Urban Review, 29(1), 41-66, 1997.

“The Masks of Normality: Uncovering the Hidden Narratives of Working-Class Women and Men.” Teaching Education, 8(1), 55-64, 1996.

“Teachers from Different Shores.” Equity and Excellence in Education, 29(3), 28-36, 1996.

“Preparing Teachers for Diversity.” The Urban Review, 26(1), 25-34, 1994.

“Why Students of Color Are Not Entering Teaching-Reflections from Minority Teachers.” Journal of Teacher Education, 45(5), 346-353, 1994.