Multicultural Education articles from September 2005

Multicultural Education archives from September 2005

Journey to becoming a teacher: the experiences of students of color.
September 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION According to the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (1996), there are currently more than 50 million students in K-12 schools in the United States, a number which is projected to increase to 55 million by 2008....

Aboriginal education at two Australian schools: under one dream.
September 22, 2005... Reflections in the water I see Black and white living together Sharing dreams of the red, black and gold --Yothu Yindi (1999) The countryside around Cherbourg, Australia, is low and rolling, sparsely wooded, with fields dotted with...

When the rules are fair, but the game isn't.(public education)
September 22, 2005... Fifty years and more than two generations after a court ruling (Brown v. Board of Education) that called for making education equal, public education remains largely unequal. Since the Brown decision changed the rules to include everyone in...

Lessons to be learned: promoting multicultural discourse through a college minority student discussion panel.
September 22, 2005... Introduction On April 13, 2004, the College of Education and Professional Studies held its' 2nd annual college minority student discussion panel at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. The main purpose of this panel...

Hmong-American students still face multiple challenges in public schools.(Research)
September 22, 2005... Although much research has been done on bilingual students from a variety of backgrounds, little research has been done specifically on the needs of K-12 Hmong students. Hmong students are refugees and children of refugees who immigrated to the...

Helping teachers unpack their "invisible knapsacks".(Promising Practices)
September 22, 2005... Sonia Nieto (2004) defines multicultural education as "a process of... basic education for all students... [that] challenges and rejects racism and other forms of discrimination in schools and society and accepts and affirms the pluralism......

Standards-based planning and teaching in a multicultural classroom.(Promising Practices)
September 22, 2005... There seems to be a tension between the standards movement and the multicultural education movement in today's academic discourse. The fact, however, is that it is possible for teachers to develop standards-based lessons across various...

Diversity initiatives in higher education: deconstructing "the down low"--people of color "coming out" and "being out" on campus: a conversation with Mark Brimhall-Vargas, Sivagami Subbaraman, and Robert Waters (1).(Higher Education)(Interview)
September 22, 2005... Introduction This article emerges from an extensive conversation with three people of color--one Latino, one South Asian, and one African American--about their experiences of "coming out" and "being out" as gay, lesbian, and bisexual in a...

Introducing the concept of the intercultural campus.(The Intercultural Campus: Transcending Culture and Power in American Higher Education )(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Intercultural Campus: Transcending Culture and Power in American Higher Education By Greg Tanaka New York: Peter Lang , 2003, 217xiv pp., ISBN 0-8204-4150-3 The Intercultural Campus: Transcending Culture and Power in American Higher...

Principles and concepts for a global age.(Democracy and Diversity: Principles and Concepts for Educating Citizens in a Global Age)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Democracy and Diversity: Principles and Concepts for Educating Citizens in a Global Age By James A. Banks, Cherry A. McGee Banks, Carlos E. Cortes, Carole L. Hahn, Merry M. Merryfield, Kogila A. Moodley, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Audrey Osler,...