Multicultural Education articles from September 2008

Multicultural Education archives from September 2008

Let's talk about race, baby: how a white professor teaches white students about white privilege & racism.
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Accounts of teaching themes of White privilege and racism to college students have been presented by Tatum (1992, 1994), Gillespie, Ashbaugh and DeFiore (2002), and Rich and Cargile (2004). Tatum described her...

Measurement and assessment: conversations with professional people of color in the field of education.(Report)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction With the increased focus on issues of diversity and multiculturalism in the United States and abroad, educators and clinicians have become more and more concerned about the feasibility and validity...

What is special about special needs of refugee children? Guidelines for teachers.(Report)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction The past decade has seen a rapid growth of increasingly diverse immigrant populations in the United States--the most vulnerable among these are refugee children. Most immigrants enter a host country...

Banana Girl.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Banana Girl I learned to draw at my father's knee and gave it him love up for power. My mother taught me my English alphabet as she was learning it, how to write characters in...

An Atlas I Know.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2008... An Atlas I Know bass thumps out the rump of a Delta 88 on 24 inch rims dice sway from the rearview mirror in the back window a Bible bounces next to an atlas I know there's meaning...

Juvenile.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Juvenile Ben tells Jorge how he's like Rosa Parks because he sits in the back of the bus Jorge points out Ben sits in the back of the bus because he wants to Pedro tells Darryl why he liked his poem ...

Bronze.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Bronze The color I seek after school when dad used to pick me Up at the curbside of Franklin and Commonwealth Av. At twelve not yet a long-haired girl, I wait and wait For bronze a two-door Nissan short-bed truck to take...

Academic Dialogue.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Academic Dialogue i read and read and read and read but still don't understand the meaning of classic modernistparadigmaticfunctionaldiscourse associated with those i know don't look like me pressed to...

Grandview.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Grandview The grade sevens went outside to write about what outside reminded them of. They lined up along the fence across from the cut, the concrete pillars of the Skytrain. To some it was a snake. To others, a...

Will.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Will Gunshots Ring across the hallway of Norris Hall in Virginia Tech on Monday, Yom HaShoah. 76-year old teacher moves to the doorway of his classroom and peers out. Death, an old acquaintance, moves toward...

The class is asked what they think of when they hear the words 'United States'.(Voices of justice: A CREATIVE WRITING FEATURE)(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Freedom, says Gao, his eyes sentinels. In China we have to like government, no free place, he says, keeping lips and jaw half-shut. Too much freedom here! says Fahd, in sharply creased trousers and three gold chains....

Ethnic disproportionality in students with autism spectrum disorders.(Research)
September 22, 2008... Introduction Originally described by Leo Kanner (1943) and recognized as a special education eligibility category by the U.S. Department of Education in 1990 (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA], 1990), autism spectrum...

Key life experiences contributing to Hmong students' matriculation.(Research)(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction Research on Hmong-Americans started emerging in the late 1980s (Conquegood, 1989; Hendricks, et al, 1986; Quincy, 1988 & 1994) and continues to flourish to the present (Hamilton-Merrit, 1993 & 1999; Hutchinson, 1997; Lo, 2001;...

Examining the presidential libraries: students find biases and recommend a multicultural perspective.(Personal Perspective)
September 22, 2008... An Educator's Question The primary focus of research that we have undertaken at New Mexico State University for the past several years can be summed up with the question--are Presidential Libraries educational institutions or are they...

"Act It Out": dramatizing stories to enhance student writing and diversity awareness.(Promising Practices)
September 22, 2008... Young people have the potential to be creative and skilled storytellers, actors, and writers. They also can become profoundly insightful about the way diversity affects themselves and others, as well as actively challenge bias. "Act It Out"...

Eduardo and Aladino: recommended children's book in Spanish.(Recommended readings)
September 22, 2008... From always-popular traditional tales, songs, and carols from around the world, to delightful books for the very young, to a contemporary Scheherazade, to engaging nonfiction books, these hard-to-resist children's books in Spanish will delight...