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Building Successful Multicultural Special Education Programs Through Innovative Leadership, Festus E. Obiakor, Floyd D. Beachum, Darrell Williams, Carlos R. Mccray
Building Successful Multicultural Special Education Programs Through Innovative Leadership, Festus E. Obiakor, Floyd D. Beachum, Darrell Williams, Carlos R. Mccray
Educational Considerations
Across America’s schools, administrators are faced with various educational challenges.
Acknowledging The “I” In Multicultural Education, Osman Ozturgut
Acknowledging The “I” In Multicultural Education, Osman Ozturgut
Essays in Education
Banks (2001) claims for students to become successful in a diverse world, they need to have the ability to communicate and negotiate among diverse cultures. Some argue that when the cultural diversity and global tolerance are promoted within multicultural education, traditional elitism and its shortcomings would be overcome (Schugurensky, 2002). Others argue that multicultural education hinders the assimilation efforts and creating a divisive society (Bernstein, 1994).
There are many views on the benefits or shortcomings of multiculturalization of education. The question is not whether a multicultural education should be adopted but it is rather what we understand from multicultural education …
Piecing Together The Diversity Puzzle, Rochelle Ripple, Jose' Villavicencio
Piecing Together The Diversity Puzzle, Rochelle Ripple, Jose' Villavicencio
Perspectives In Learning
Current literature focuses on the importance of listening to students’ voices and the insights they have on their experiences. According to Dewey (1916/1944), having interactions with other groups helps in the process of democratic growth because one is better able to understand other perspectives. Freire (1985) added another layer of richness to Dewey’s ideas about reflection and experience. He believed that people exist “in and with the world.” Fraser (1994) describes the need for different voices and different views in educating children in a public sphere of critical inquiry and multiple voices (different genders and people of all colors). In …
Support Groups For Children Whose Parents Have Deployed To Iraq, James Blount
Support Groups For Children Whose Parents Have Deployed To Iraq, James Blount
Perspectives In Learning
Findings among army researchers, many of whom have published their work on Army Knowledge Online (AKO), have consistently shown that children are affected negatively by the deployment of their parents to Iraq or, for that matter, any war. This is cause for great concern as the War on Terror could go on for many, many years to come. However, since it is known in general what the negative effects on children are, strategies and techniques have been formulated to offset the damage done to children. Some of the questions that remain to be answered follow: At what ages are children …
Using The Film Crash To Promote A Multicultural Identity In Students, Richard P. Long
Using The Film Crash To Promote A Multicultural Identity In Students, Richard P. Long
Perspectives In Learning
This review demonstrates how the film Crash can be used in the classroom to show students a nonthreatening way to reconsider stereotypical views of racism. Until the film Crash was released in 2005, Hollywood timidly made movies such as Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? and To Kill a Mockingbird, in which the underlying theme was that other people are racists, not us. Crash, literally and figuratively, questions that stereotypical view of racism. Crash suggests that each of us is indeed racist and, when placed in a threatening situation, these prejudices control our behavior. Using selected scenes from the film, …