Multicultural Education articles from December 2006

Multicultural Education archives from December 2006

Introduction: special issue on innovative practices.(Innovative Practices)
December 22, 2006... Innovation, adaptation, and ingenuity are all words intended to provoke new thinking that moves through inquiry and insight toward an assertion or an action, but they are also words that buzz and riddle the world at large, usually with little...

A love supreme--riffing on the standards: placing ideas at the center of high stakes schooling.
December 22, 2006... A Musical Backdrop In the 1940s and early 1950s every Saturday after my accordion lessons I used to wander around Times Square and up Sixth Avenue. One of my favorite things was to run into one of the dozens of older men wearing long gray...

Finding the Poetic High: building a spoken word poetry community and culture of creative, caring, and critical intellectuals.(Innovative Practices)
December 22, 2006... Introducing... "This next young poet coming to grace our stage brings the richness of her daily struggles to life through the beauty and truth of her words. Show your love for our next poet blessing mic... ladies and gentlemen, please...

A critically compassionate intellectualism for Latina/o students: raising voices above the silencing in our schools.
December 22, 2006... Latina/o students often experience coursework that is remedial and unchallenging--benign at best, a dumbing-down at worst (Solorzano & Yosso, 2001). This potential limiting curriculum is not only failing to provide Latinas/os with the...

From the tightrope: designing, developing, and delivering an alternative teacher education model.(Innovative Practices)
December 22, 2006... In the fall of 2003 a number of factors came together to create a fertile environment for developing an alternative, pre-service teacher education model. The overarching goal of the model is to diversify a rural university's credential...

Pens on the prize: linking school and community through contest-inspired literacy.(Innovative Practices)
December 22, 2006... It was eight o'clock on a Friday morning. The sun was peeking through cirrus clouds, and traffic on downtown interstate freeways was minimal. A high school teacher was at home awaiting the arrival of two colleagues, one a university researcher...

Toward a pedagogy of transformative teacher education: world educational links.(Innovative Practices)(Viewpoint essay)
December 22, 2006... As a classroom teacher, I used to believe that valuing diversity in the classroom meant learning about our differences and similarities and finding ways to work together. Creating a peaceable classroom for learning became central in my...

"Everything they were giving us created tension": creating and managing tension in a graduate-level multicultural course focused on literacy methods.
December 22, 2006... While growing up I did not learn about my culture nor did I gain cultural values through my community... I do not think I was allowed to have a culture because I am a White, middle-class American girl from the suburbs. --Karen, a...

Collaborative recruitment of diverse teachers for the long haul--TEAMS: Teacher Education for the Advancement of a Multicultural Society.(Innovative Practices)
December 22, 2006... The recruitment of qualified teachers is an immense and demanding job, particularly for high-poverty urban schools. Urban schools often turn to the common practice of recruiting teachers who are underqualified, most of them with no teaching...

Fearless innovation--songwriting for our lives: inspiring learners with arts-based practices that support creativity.(Songwriting To Inspire Learners)
December 22, 2006... As long as I can remember I've had songs in my head. A song will repeat itself over and over again until another one bumps it out. In fact, it took me most of my adult life before I realized that I could be a songwriter because I always had...

New paradigms for diversifying faculty and staff in higher education: uncovering cultural biases in the search and hiring process.
December 22, 2006... Introduction In the last ten years, many colleges, universities, boards, and agencies have jumped on the diverse faculty/staff hiring bandwagon not only by issuing resolutions, policies, and mandates but also by inventing programs,...

Helping Whites develop anti-racist identities: overcoming their resistance to fighting racism.
December 22, 2006... A Teacher's Perspective Current Manifestations of Resistance: Same Old Privilege, Different Form In our current work to confront privilege and dismantle racism, White students and teachers who are exposed to information about how...

Creating a bridge from high school to college for Hispanic students.
December 22, 2006... An Overview of the Utah County Academy of Sciences, with Special Reference to its Benefits for Hispanic Students Early College High Schools (ECHS) are defined as "small schools where students can earn both a high school diploma and two...