Multicultural Education articles from December 2007

Multicultural Education archives from December 2007

Introduction: Special Issue on Hurricane Katrina: schools, culture, and trauma.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)(Editorial)
December 22, 2007... This Special Issue on Hurricane Katrina was conceived as a vehicle to address some of the multicultural and ethical considerations that were present or inherent--but not yet fully addressed--in this trauma situation. The editors developed this...

Ode to a hurricane: (umm, that'd be Katrina).(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)(Poem)
December 22, 2007... Ode to a Hurricane (umm, that'd be Katrina) I The stars were dancing, The moon shining bright-Over the town of Bay St. Louis That hot August night. Students at Bay Catholic Had been learning how to...

Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.(Brief article)(Photograph)
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Scenes around Oretha Castle Haley School in Lower 9th Ward Rebuilding New Orleans [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Photography by John Fulwiler, College of Education, Southeastern Louisiana University

Apologia for K.W.: a brief tale of wounded love, schools, and being Black in America.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)(Kanye West)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... George Bush does not care about Black people. --Kanye West Nervously blinking with hands stuffed into his pants and his courage mustered into action, he rambled his brief complaint. Deep pain etched each shaky syllable, however. Then,...

The role of perception in crisis management: a tale of two hurricanes.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)
December 22, 2007... The anticipatory model of crisis management (Olaniran & Williams, 2001; Scholl, Williams, & Olaniran, 2005) draws the attention of crisis practitioners and researchers to the precrisis phase of crisis management. The model views institutions'...

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina: delivering crisis mental health services to host communities.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)
December 22, 2007... Journal Entries August 26, 2005 Today, for most of the morning, I sat glued to the television, like millions of Americans in disbelief as I watched thousands of people who look just like me and my folk, stranded in dire stress at the...

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: the importance of multiculturalism in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Same Story; Different Date The importance of multiculturalism in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina can be illustrated through a comparative view of the 1967 controversial, seminal, and Academy Award winning film, Guess Who's Coming to...

Art by Eddie Dixon.(Brief article)(Photograph)
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Eddie Dixon is a celebrated artist from Lubbock, Texas. His historical sculptures in bronze have been nationally and internationally recognized. Dixon's first commission was a sculpture of Eugene Bullard, the only...

The impact of Hurricane Katrina on technology and media infrastructures in Louisiana and Mississippi school districts.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)(Report)
December 22, 2007... Perhaps one of the worst disasters in United States history, Hurricane Katrina is expected to have a lasting impact on the economies of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida with losses in the billions of dollars (Zwaniecki, 2005). Given...

Planning for disaster: education policy in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)
December 22, 2007... Natural disasters and economic crises can have a negative effect on schooling. In late August 2005 the American Gulf Coast was struck by Hurricane Katrina. Due to the disaster, many school districts lacked the facilities to execute their...

Stakeholder organizations: Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans public schools.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)
December 22, 2007... The public schools of New Orleans have long been believed to be among the worst of any big city school systems in the United States. The students are the poorest citizens of one of the poorest cities in one of the poorest states in the country....

The Winds of Katrina still call our names: how do teachers and schools confront social justice issues?(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)(Essay)
December 22, 2007... As Educator Leaders, Where Do We Stand? I was invited last year to talk to participants at the Conference of Educational Leaders (CEL) in Nashville, Tennessee. When I learned about the theme of this conference, "Where We Stand: Issues in...

Six multicultural service-learning lessons: I learned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)
December 22, 2007... As a teacher educator who regularly teaches a multicultural education course, I have often employed service-learning as a pedagogical strategy in assisting preservice teachers to understand better the various multicultural topics we discuss,...

Teaching children of catastrophe.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)
December 22, 2007... Teaching children who are victims of Katrina is not a multicultural education issue per se. The field is not centered in catastrophic events such as the hurricane, the breakage of the levees on Lake Pontchartrain and the subsequent havoc that...

A call to consciousness: lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina.(Schools, Culture, and Trauma)
December 22, 2007... Diversity means inclusivity--every voice should be at the table and should be heard including underrepresented groups such as people of color, women, GLBTs, elderly people, poor people, people with disabilities, and those already at the table...