Multicultural Education articles from December 2008

Multicultural Education archives from December 2008

Who dares to dream the American dream?
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction In the research about the educational experiences of refugee students, few articles describe how recently-arrived refugee students and their families make their transition to public schools in the...

Crisis in the southwest: bilingual education program inconsistencies.(Report)
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Staff development is too often inadequate or overlooked in bilingual education. Rather, bilingual educators are forced to seek outside resources and strategies because of inconsistencies in school district bilingual...

Black female millennial college students: dating dilemmas and identity development.(Report)
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The literature regarding millennial college students reveals that they differ in many ways from their predecessors, including Baby Boomers and Gen Xers (Coomes & DeBard, 2004; Howe & Strauss 2000; Oblinger, 2003;...

Weaving colors into a white landscape: unpacking the silences in Karen Hesse's children's novel Out of the Dust.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The children's novel Out of the Dust (Hesse, 1997) is an evocative portrayal of the drought and dust storms that devastated Midwestern farms in the 1930s. Through the voice of her 13-year-old narrator, Hesse...

Transactions, transformation, and transcendence: multicultural service-learning experience of preservice teachers.(Research)(Report)
December 22, 2008... Introduction Using U.S. Census Bureau data from 2000, Cochran-Smith (2004) reported that it was "estimated that people of color made up 28% of the nation's population in 2000, and predicted that they would make up 38% in 2025, and 47% in...

A reply to John Searle and other traditionalists.(Personal Perspective)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... In an article entitled Traditionalists & Their Challengers, (1) John Searle says there is "supposed to be a major debate" in the universities as to whether liberal education should be replaced with multiculturalism. (2) He finds this debate...

Sensitivity to the learning needs of newcomers in foreign language settings.(Personal Perspective)(Report)
December 22, 2008... This article focuses on the instructional needs of newcomers to our North American classrooms who already speak one or more foreign languages and who are coping with classroom-related language issues. It taps into positive instructional...

Text matters: Mexican immigrant parents reading their world.(Promising Practices)(Report)
December 22, 2008... Solo tengo una pregunta por hacerle: Nos podria proporcionar una lectura por cada 5 dias? I just have a question: Could you give us a new reading for each day of the week? What teacher would not like to hear this sort of request from a...

Demystifying cultural theories and practices: locating Black immigrant experiences in teacher education research.(Higher Education)(Report)
December 22, 2008... Introduction The number of immigrants of color residing in the United States reached 13.5 million in March 2005, the highest in U. S. history (Camarota, 2005). By 2010 the number of Black immigrants and their children is estimated to reach...