Multicultural Education articles from June 2006

Multicultural Education archives from June 2006

The Human Right to Education: freedom and empowerment.
June 22, 2006... Cantico Negro "Vem por aqui"--dizem-me alguns com olhos doces, Estendendo-me os bracos, e seguros De que seria bom se eu os ouvisse Quando me dizem: "vem por aqui"! Eu olho-os com olhos lassos, (Ha, nos meus olhos, ironias e cansacos) E...

Individuals in a collectivist world: born in the U.S.A., teaching in Caracas, Venezuela.
June 22, 2006... Two U.S.A.-born American professors of education reflect on lessons in family and community gleaned while teaching graduate courses to teachers in one of South America's capitol cities: How does traffic flow smoothly in a city of 6 million...

Deepening teacher knowledge of multiculural literature through a university-schools partnership.
June 22, 2006... How can professional development help teachers tune up subject matter knowledge to better reach their culturally and linguistically diverse students? When teachers evaluate such work as effective, what do they learn, and what makes the work...

Making connections with the past: (un)masking African American history at a neighborhood community center.(Carver Center)
June 22, 2006... Introduction As educators, we generally focus on promising practices that emerge from traditional classroom settings. Remediation, derived from scientifically-based research, is typically viewed as a treatment to be applied in public...

Beyond promise: autobiography and multicultural education.
June 22, 2006... Introduction In studying the politics of identity, we find that who we are is invariably related to who others are, as well as to whom we have been and want to become. (William F. Pinar, 2004, p. 30) ...

Learning in unexpected places: empowering Latino parents.
June 22, 2006... Introduction Time and again we are reminded that while schools are indeed critical places of learning, a great deal of learning occurs outside formal school settings. Family learning occurs in a variety of environments--the home, the...

"Not writing it out but writing it off": preparing multicultural teachers for urban classrooms.(Research)
June 22, 2006... Introduction Immersion in a linguistically and culturally diverse urban community in combination with coursework that relies on process writing can help prospective teachers gain awareness and understanding of diverse communities. Utilized...

Does Huck Finn belong in my classroom? Reflections of curricular choice, multicultural education, and diversity.(Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn replaced with A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave of Frederick Douglass in american literature curriculum)
June 22, 2006... Recently, our English department deleted Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from our American Literature curriculum, as well as the curriculum as a whole, replacing it with Douglass's A Narrative of the Life of Frederick...

Trial and error: a framework for teaching multicultural literature to aspiring teachers.(Promising Practices)
June 22, 2006... Multicultural education is widely accepted in schools in the United States (Banks, 1993; Sleeter & Grant, 1999). Though there are various philosophical debates within the field of multicultural education (Banks, 1993; Sleeter & Grant, 1999;...

Art as a behavior modification tool.(Promising Practices)
June 22, 2006... In Preparation Like a sleeping giant, the project slumbered. As I prepared for my first day working with students in the after school program of the local school district, I could not help but wonder what I would discover when that giant...

Ethnic identity and its relationship with school achievement.
June 22, 2006... The achievement gap disparity in school performance associated with ethnicity shows up in high school graduation rates, test scores, grades, drop-out rates, and college completion. It is one of the most urgent problems in public schooling....

Picturing the animals of the world.(The Water Hole )(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Water Hole Written and illustrated by Graeme Base New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001 This book was chosen by my nature-loving son from his school's book order club. I was hesitant at first to spend the $14.95, without reviewing it...

A Korean-American story.(Cooper's Lesson )(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Cooper's Lesson By Sun Yung Shin Illustrated by Kim Cogan San Francisco: Children's Book Press www.cbookpress.org 2003, Hardcover, 32 pp., $16.95 ISBN 0-89239-193-6 Sun Yung Shin has authored a bilingual book in English and Korean...

Seeking to improve schools.(How to Improve Your School )(Book review)
June 22, 2006... How to Improve Your School By Jean Rudduck and Julia Flutter New York: Continuum, 2004 ISBN: 0-8264-6531-5 (Paperback) ISBN: 0-8264-6530-7 (Hardback) I was impressed by this book from the moment I saw the title, How to Improve Your School....