Biography
JON REYHNER is Professor of Bilingual Multicultural Education in
the Department
of Educational Specialties at Northern Arizona
University where he has also served as the Coordinator of the Bilingual
Multicultural Education Program. Previously, Dr. Reyhner served as
Associate
Professor of Education at Montana State University-Billings, where he also
coordinated an Indian Bilingual Teacher Training Program for a time.
Before coming
to Billings, he taught junior high school for four years in the Navajo
Nation and was a school administrator for ten years in Indian schools in
Arizona, Montana, and New Mexico. His long-term interest is improving the
education of American Indian students. He served as a commissioned author
for the U.S. Government's Indian Nations at Risk Task Force,
co-authored the research review for the Government's American
Indian/Alaska
Native Research Group, and was a co-investigator for Arizona
State
University's Native Educators Research Project.
Reyhner has written extensively on American Indian education and
Indigenous
language revitalization. His most recent book is Education and Language
Restoration (2006). He is also co-author of American
Indian Education: A History (2004) and Language and Literacy
Teaching
for Indigenous Education (2002), co-editor of Nurturing Native
Languages (2003), Indigenous
Languages Across the Community (2002), Learn in Beauty: Indigenous
Education for a New Century (2000), and Revitalizing Indigenous
Languages
(1999), and editor of Teaching Indigenous Languages (1997),
Teaching
American Indian Students (1992), and Effective Language Education
Practices (1990). He has also written over 50 book chapters and
articles. He was a facilitator at the First Annual Stabilizing
Indigenous Languages
Symposium at Northern Arizona University in 1994 and co-chaired the Fourth
and Eighth Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposia at Northern
Arizona University in 1997 and 2001. He currently is the coordinator for
the Symposia Steering Committee.
Reyhner edits a column on Issues in Indigenous Education for
NABE News published by the National Association for
Bilingual Education and is on the editorial
boards of the History of Education Quarterly and Bilingual
Research Journal and the review panel
for the Journal of American Indian Education. He has served on the
Multicultural
Advisory Board for McDougal Littell and as a reviewer for the
Equity & Excellence, Bilingual
Research Journal, Choice, Language & Education, Anthropology
& Education, Canadian Journal of
Native Studies, Canadian Journal of Native Education, American
Educational Research Journal, American
Indian Quarterly, Teaching Education, Journal of
Professional Studies, National Clearinghouse for Bilingual
Education, Cambridge University Press, University of Oklahoma Press,
Lawrence Erlbaum, and Longman. He
has also given over 100 workshops, presentations, and speeches at
regional, national, and international conferences.
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