Multicultural Education articles from September 2007

Multicultural Education archives from September 2007

Becoming a border pedagogy educator: rooting practice in paradox.
September 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Border Paradox Reflecting on my experiences as an educator over the past four years, I realize that Border Pedagogy has profoundly shaped my vision for education, significantly changed my instructional practice,...

Correction.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2007... Multicultural Education, Volume 14, Number 3 Yih-Jiun Shen, an assistant professor in the College of Education at Texas Tech University, is a co-author of "Interfacing Culture Specific Pedagogy with Counseling: A Proposed Diversity Training...

Preparing socially conscious teachers: a social justice-oriented teacher education.
September 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction For decades, educators and researchers have observed practices of educational inequality in U.S. schools (Kozol, 1991). In a multicultural democracy, schooling without educational equality...

Counting language: an exercise in stigmatization.
September 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The argument concerning the use, or the status, or the reality, of Black English is rooted in American history and has absolutely nothing to do with the question the argument supposes itself to be posing. The...

Educating Vietnamese American students.
September 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Promotion of English proficiency for students from disadvantaged backgrounds was one of the major provisions of the No Child Left Behind federal act of 2001. This act mandated that limited English proficient (LEP)...

At Dawn/Al amanacer.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... At Dawn I am the history of conscience, words, songs, poems, confronted suffering, torn injustice, announcing in a loud voice the right to be. I am the history of violence, punches, insults,...

An Essential Voice.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)
September 22, 2007... My mom smiled as she spoke, "You can catch up, and you'll still take the math class that all the other kids are taking in addition to this one. It's only for a year." My dad and mom's smiles told me that they were convinced this was the...

Id, Ego & Superego.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Id, Ego & Superego i am overwhelmed with inadequacies and i fear inadequacy and i suffer from the reality of inadequacy while i cry inadequacy. Then i deny inadequacy but i buy inadequacy...

This Poem Wants 2 B A Revolutionary.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... This Poem Wants 2 B A Revolutionary This poem wants to make a change... To be a strong yet silent raised fist in Mexico, 1968. To stand at a window w/a shotgun writing the words "By any means necessary" To...

Letters to the Man.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Letters to the Man Why must you pimp black culture? Does it arouse you to see every black man in jail cuz black movies said all he could do was fail? And does it turn you on to see our women riding the pole before ...

Mishmoshed American.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Mishmoshed American Mazel tov papacito! You've just met a Juidican. Definition: Judio and Dominican. Light skin, features African, nappy hair that's thin, afro, but I'm still a mensch, travelin' from El Cibao to...

The Poet and the War/El Poeta y la Guerra.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... The Poet and the War The poet took an olive branch and offered it to the wind. A glass of wine knotted the heart of the dreamer while a white dove, in pirouette of magnificent flight, surprised the men rocking hatred....

Mimosa Pudica.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Mimosa Pudica Mimosa pudica-- "if you touch it, it dies," said my student once another called it shy--old--lady from her Jamaican grandma in Sierra Leone the Mende called it shut--thighs this timid...

Keeping It Green.(Values of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Keeping It Green The Yale students last Fall vigilantly protested closing New Haven County's overflow shelter right alongside the homeless souls that reside inside. The homeless want a place to rest...

Preservice educators' perceptions of teaching in an urban middle school setting: a lesson from the Amistad.(Research)(Report)
September 22, 2007... Objectives and Theoretical Framework Preparing European-American pre-service teachers for diverse urban school settings poses multiple challenges. Of primary concern are the differences in race, culture, and community between teachers and...

Selecting for ethnically diverse children who may be gifted using Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices and Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test.(Research)(Report)
September 22, 2007... The identification of ethnically diverse students who are gifted has become a topic of great concern in the educational arena. Over the past few decades there has been increasing concern about the under-representation of ethnically diverse...

A case study of an early childhood teacher's perspective on working with English language learners.(Research)(Case study)
September 22, 2007... Introduction The student population in United States early childhood education programs is becoming more diverse every year (Miller, Miller, & Schroth, 1997; Waggoner, 1994). The diversity of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and...

Community as a participatory foundation in culturally conscientious classrooms.(Promising Practices)
September 22, 2007... The development of a trusting community of learners is vital for critical, inclusive, culturally conscientious social studies teaching. Critical, community-minded social studies teachers work to create meaningful relationships among their...

Examining African American middle school students learning language arts in context.(Promising Practices)(Case study)
September 22, 2007... Lois Bloom (1970) described oral language as comprised of content, form, and use, using a Venn diagram to show the interrelated nature of these aspects of language. More recently, the International Reading Association (1996) has adapted a...

Courageous conversations about race: a critical analysis.(Personal Perspective)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... The book Courageous Conversations about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools resulted from districts and schools across the country implementing strategies proposed by authors Glenn E. Singleton and Curtis Linton (2006) to close...

"Deaf theory": what can we learn from feminist theory?(Higher Education)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... Introduction "Theory" is defined as a system of ideas or statements held as an explanation or account of a group of facts or phenomena (The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 1996). Facts or observations become meaningful in the context of...