The Education of Minorities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East

Cynthia Szymanski Sunal is Professor Emerita at The University of Alabama in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is an author of over 150 refereed journal articles, over 110 book chapters and books, over 100 technical reports, and has made over 300 presentations at professional conferences. With a research focus on critical thinking, social studies education, teacher induction, and mentoring in pre- and in-service teacher education. her work continues to incorporate and reflect the ever-growing and ever-changing development of teacher education.

Oluseyi Matthew Odebiyi Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. His research interests include the intersection of epistemic beliefs and teacher development across cultures, curricula-instructional meaning-making, elementary social studies education, and translation of inquiry ideas and structures into practice by teacher candidates. His current research has expanded to curricular expectations for critical thinking and teachers' pedagogical design capacity for inquiry methods.