Multicultural Education articles from June 2007

Multicultural Education archives from June 2007

Looking through the eyes of injustice: integrating poetry and African-American history.
June 22, 2007... My Soul's Song to the World My students' eyes are affixed to the screen as the story of Emmit Till unfolds. In an instant, his unrecognizable body, one eye gouged out and a bullet to his crushed skull is pulled from the Tallahatchie River....

"A meeting place for us": Milpera, a newcomer high school.(Milpera, Australia)
June 22, 2007... On a hazy Wednesday morning I arrive at a suburban station south of Brisbane, Australia, exit down the long platform, skirt the edge of the local cricket oval, and approach the Milpera State High School. Moving nearby along the dusty path are...

Voices: bilingual youth constructing and defending their identities across Borders, a Binational Study of Puerto Rican Circular Migrant Students.
June 22, 2007... This article summarizes an interview-based investigation of Puerto Rican circular migrant students (CMSs) between Puerto Rico and the Northeastern United States. The goals of the study were (1) to identify the perceptions of Puerto Rican CMSs...

Educational reform, mathematics, & diverse learners: meeting the needs of all students.
June 22, 2007... In a preservice mathematics methods class, David, a mathematics educator, shows the video "Good Morning Miss Toliver" (Toliver, 1993). This film features a public middle school teacher and her mathematics students from East Harlem in New York....

Developing skills for English learners through social sciences.(Research)
June 22, 2007... Introduction One of the biggest challenges in education today is to train teachers effectively to improve instruction for English learners (ELs). No longer is the teaching of English the sole concern of educators but rather they must be...

Analyzing teachers' dispositions towards diversity: using adult development theory.(Research)
June 22, 2007... Why do some teachers demonstrate great cultural sensitivity in their work with children while others seem mired in stereotypes, perpetuating a view of diversity as exotic or denying that race is an issue in their classrooms? Why is it so...

Multiculturalize teacher identity: a critical descriptive narrative.(Research)
June 22, 2007... Introduction Cochran-smith, Davis, and Fries (2004) reviewed the research, practice, and policy of multicultural teacher education during the last decade of the twentieth century and the first few years of the twenty-first century, and...

Culturally responsive teaching: do we walk our talk?(Promising Practices)
June 22, 2007... One aspect of teacher education scholarship lies not in the constant production of new concepts, but in the reproduction of theory and practice previously documented as critical for teacher success. While exploratory research furthers our...

From borders to bridges: making cross-cultural connections through multicultural literature.(Promising Practices)
June 22, 2007... In March 1493 Christopher Columbus sailed back to Spain with gold trinkets, parrots, and a few Indians. He left some sailors in the New World to search for gold. Christopher was a hero to the people of Spain. King Ferdinand and Queen...

Regionalism and the classroom.(Personal Perspective)
June 22, 2007... I am a native Appalachian. My roots are in southern West Virginia, near Charleston. When I left West Virginia in 1994, I encountered regionalism in Maryland and later in Florida. I define regionalism as a belief that one's region of origin is a...

Building on the knowledge of individuals: a review of The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Reviewed by Reynaldo Reyes III The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press 1997, 134 pages ISBN 0-8263-1797-9 (pbk.) $10.95 I teach a course called Multicultural...

Adopting or challenging white supremacy: A review of are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Reviewed by Matthew Maruggi Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America Edited by Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno New York: Routledge 2003 $135 US ISBN 0-415-93451-6 In Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America, editors...

Awareness about different cultural groups: a review of Narrative & Experience in Multicultural Education.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Narrative & Experience in Multicultural Education Edited by Joann Phillion, Ming Fang He, & F. Michael Connelly Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2005 ISBN 1-4129-0583-4 $39.95 Introduction The purpose of multicultural education is...