Elavie Ndura is an Associate Professor of Educational Transformation in the George Mason University Graduate School of Education Master’s in New Professional Studies–Teaching program. She earned a Doctorate (Ed. D.) in Curriculum and Instruction with emphasis in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from Northern Arizona University, USA; an M.Ed. in Teaching English for Specific Purposes from the University of Exeter, England; and a B.A. in Arts and Humane Sciences with emphasis in English Language and Literature from the University of Burundi, Africa. She taught English Language Arts, English as a Foreign Language, English as a Second Language, and French in culturally diverse secondary schools for 17 years in Africa and the United States. She has been teaching college graduate and undergraduate Multicultural Education and TESOL courses in teacher preparation programs for many years.

Elavie joined the IET faculty from the University of Nevada-Reno in 2005. Her research interests are in the areas of diversity and multicultural education, cultural identity development, immigrants’ acculturation, students’ academic achievement in culturally diverse educational settings, multicultural peace education, and peaceful conflict resolution. She has delivered numerous presentations and keynote addresses at international, national, and local professional meetings and other gatherings. She has contributed chapters to several books, including African Peace Studies for the 21st Century (in press); Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict: Primal violence or the Politics of Conviction (in press); Suffer the Little Children: National and International Dimensions of Child Poverty (Elsevier, 2006), Teaching all of the Children in Your Classroom (Guilford, 2004), Multicultural and Multilingual Literacy and Language: Contexts and Practices (Guilford, 2004), and Conflict Resolution and Peace Education in Africa (Lexington Books, 2003).

Elavie’s scholarly articles have appeared in Intercultural Education; Culture of Peace Online Journal; Peace and Change; Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy; Language, Culture and Curriculum; Multicultural Perspectives; Multicultural Education; American Secondary Education; Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education; and other publications. Elavie served as Board Member of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies and was President and Founder of the Northern Nevada Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education for four years. She is currently a Board Member of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and the guest editor of the annual special issue of the journal Peace & Change. She is also a Board Member at large of the Peace Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.

• Graduate School of Education
• Center for International Education
• Center for Language and Culture
• Initiatives in Educational Transformation

No courses taught this semester.

• Foundations of Multicultural Education (EDUC - 537)