Multicultural Education articles from September 2010

Multicultural Education archives from September 2010

Recognizing and utilizing queer pedagogy.(Report)
September 22, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The world is not divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and...

Representations of native Americans in elementary school social studies: a critical look at instructional language.(Report)
September 22, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction In a fourth grade classroom in the Pacific Northwest, a teacher and her students are reviewing one of the most infamous events in U.S. history: "The Trail of Tears," the forced resettlement of the...

Decolonizing teaching: a cross-curricular and collaborative model for teaching about race in the University.(Report)
September 22, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [T]here was a discussion panel this week entitled "Real Students, Real Talk" that I was a part of. Basically the panel talked about the on-going issue of race on our campus. I just wanted to let you know that the...

Crossing cultures: considering ethnotheory in teacher thinking and practices.(Research)
September 22, 2010... Introduction Our society is becoming more and more culturally diverse. Schools are no exception. This poses a unique set of challenges for establishing meaningful home-school relations. Given the fact that the home and the school may...

Children's struggles with the writing process: exploring storytelling, visual arts, and keyboarding to promote narrative story writing.(Research)(Report)
September 22, 2010... Introduction The writing process can pose real challenges for some children. As a special education consultant teacher at an elementary school, in the Toronto (Ontario) area from 1994-2002, I (Michael) worked with many students who...

Reconstructing multicultural education through personal story: transcending the essentialist/relativist dichotomy.(Personal Perspective)(Report)
September 22, 2010... Multicultural education has become (part of)... a science of professional training. (Dimetriadis & McCarthy, 2001) Like so many other concepts in education, multiculturalism is a term that has lost its potency because of miseducative...

Beyond the textbook: building relationships between teachers and diversely-structured families.(Promising Practices)(Report)
September 22, 2010... Introduction It has been no secret that today's schools are faced with many challenges. U.S. schools are struggling with low test scores, high drop-out rates, and unequal quality public education. These schools are also struggling to meet the...

Individual and group reflection strategies: what we learned from preservice teachers.(Promising Practices)(Report)
September 22, 2010... Introduction As classrooms become more diverse, one of the necessary goals of teacher education programs is to prepare preservice teachers (PSTs) to work with children of diverse populations (Cochran-Smith, 2000; Ladson-Billings, 1995;...

The Lifenet View: fostering contextual understanding in the professional education curriculum.(Promising Practices)(Report)
September 22, 2010... Introduction Practitioners in all fields, teacher education and K-12 schools being no exception, must be able to work across gender, class, ethnic, and language differences in order to teach, counsel, heal, assist, and collaborate effectively...