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Unlocking The Power Of Multidimensional Literacy In A Language Arts Classroom: A Middle School Language Arts Curriculum, Andrew Raymond Kostelnik

All Graduate Projects

A curriculum project that incorporates a multidimensional and multicultural point of view is created for a middle school language arts classroom in a rural community. Multiculturalism theories and underpinnings are examined and critically analyzed. Materials are identified and examined to determine the appropriateness in relation to the demographics and nature of the Kayman School District. Multiple sources and materials were established as a permanent curricular component to ensure an education that incorporates multiple perspectives and viewpoints.

Redefining The Apartheid Of American History: A Middle School History Curriculum, John Scott Sandberg

All Graduate Projects

After more than half a century of efforts to address the historical educational chasm between marginalized groups it has become obvious that the need for culturally sensitive and inclusive curriculums need to be developed. This project is intended to assist educators take the first steps into the multicultural arena or provide a vehicle for curriculum incorporation. Sample curriculum is provided as an illustration of classroom practice and cultural inclusion. Student and educator roles are defined as well as activities, and assessment methods are described and outlined with links to curriculum content, Washington State's Essential Academic Learning Requirements and Classroom Based …

International Dateline (June 2008, Vol. 18 No. 2), Zinta Konrad

International Dateline Newsletter

Visitors; Staff News; Retireees; Tom Montgomery-Fate in Nicaragua; International CommitteeReports; Got 3D Vision?; College Lecture Series; Leaving Home Essay Challenge; Professional Development and Exchanges; CBYX Intern in Washington; Study Abroad; Lauren Vitiello in Florence Fall 2008; Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Host an Exchange Student from France; People Educating People; International Negotiations Modules Project; Peace Institute; Conferences/Workshops/Fellowships; Resources; Cultural Miscues

Office Of Multicultural Affairs (Oma) Annual Report 2007-2008, Intercultural Student Engagement Office, Anthony Johnson

Intercultural Student Engagement (ISE) Annual Reports

The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) Annual Report 2007-2008 is a year in review containing a message from the director, staff updates, community programs, statistics and general report of the work of this office. Our Mission: People from all backgrounds bring value to the art and human conversations held at RISD. The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) assists the RISD community-at-large in shaping a culturally inclusive and supportive environment that enables all its members the opportunity to fully contribute to and benefit from the total RISD experience. OMA coordinates enriching opportunities for cultural awareness, dialogue, and interaction. The office services …

A Nonnative Speaker, And Still The Right Person For The Job, Eun-Young Julia Kim

Faculty Publications

I am a nontraditional ESL director. There is no denying that I am a foreigner. No matter how many times I've dyed my hair and tried to adopt an American name to appear more "native," I am just too Asian; an invincible accent, a hard-to-pronounce three-syllable name, dark brown eyes, a body the size of an eighth grader's - all these reveal the invconvenient truth that I am not from "here." At just over 5 feet tall, I am almost indistinguishable from my ESL students.

Teacher Perceptions Of Multicultural Education: A Research Proposal For A Study Of The Perceptions Of Five White, Female Teachers, Katherine Waight

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

The population of the United States continues to become more and more culturally diverse. Yet, white middle-class women dominate the teaching force. Because there are such great numbers of white middle-class women teaching students of color, it is important to re-examine how they perceive and use multicultural education in their classrooms. There have been numerous studies that have examined how white, pre-service teachers’ perceptions impact their pre-service experiences, but it is important to look at how practicing teachers’ perceptions of multicultural education affect their teaching. This study explores how teachers’ perceptions of multicultural education influence the way they teach.

A …

Where We Go To School: Latino Students And The Public Schools Of Boston, Miren Uriarte, Jie Chen, Mandira Kala

Gastón Institute Publications

Where we go to School: Latino Students and the Public Schools of Boston focuses on the experience of Latino children in the Boston Public Schools (BPS). Using available public data that had not previously been compiled, it aims at the fullest view possible of the Latino school population.

Boston Public Schools is the largest school district in the state, enrolling 56,765 students in AY 2006, the school year that is the focus of this study. School enrollments in Boston have been both shrinking and diversifying. In 2000-2001, for example, enrollments numbered 63,024; just five years later, enrollment was 9.6% lower. …

The Effect Of Stem Length In Multiple Choice Questions On Item Difficulty In Syllabus-Based Vocabulary Test Items, Marwa Mohamed Abd El-Mohsen

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Alexander, J. M. (Sc 1658), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1658. Letters concerning J.M. Alexander's attempts to receive credit for courses taken at African American educational institutions in Kentucky.

As Is The Sapling, So Grows The Tree: The Importance Of Early Care, Roberto E. Bahruth

Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations

All education is political and the ways children are educated early in life has a strong influence on them throughout their adult experience. Examples of these influences are provided from past generations with an argument to address the speed-of-light living of the generation of the microchip world of today's modern society. Children growing up with electronics and with little tolerance for down time crave constant stimulation. They are living a fundamentally different childhood, disconnected from nature's metaphors. Reflective time, quiet time, time spent getting lost in a book are being replaced by microtexting, emails, instant messaging, and cell phone conversations …

Chinese Heritage Culture And Language Initiative, Sandra G. Flank

Cornerstone 2 Reports : Community Outreach and Empowerment Through Service Learning and Volunteerism

Chinese Heritage Culture and Language Initiative

Xiao-lei Wang (Professor)

Xiao-lan Rong (Graduate Assistant)

School of Education

Initial Plan: Produce Chinese Heritage language lessons through traditional Chinese Holidays for afterschool activities

Profiles And Perspectives: Learning Through Descriptive Inquiry At The Cypress Hills Community School, Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Cecilia M. Espinosa, Sarah Ferholt, Michael Loeb, Berky Lugo-Salcedo, Cecilia Traugh

Publications and Research

This paper describes the work of a collaborative study group on exploring the multiple literacies of students at one school in Brooklyn, NY. Through descriptive review, the group developed knowledge about how to support student language and bilingualism through responsive techniques.

Biliteracy And Skills Transfer: Literacy Skills Transfer From Arabic To English Focusing On Lexical Access, Henry J. Hauser

Theses and Dissertations

This research was designed to gain understanding of literacy skills transfer from a first language involving a particular writing system to a second language which uses another, divergent writing system. The author has worked in adult literacy in an area of the Sahara desert where the people's first language is Arabic and the majority of adults were illiterate. The present research utilized this setting to study literacy skills transfer from Arabic to English. Specific questions addressed in the research were: what skills transfer from L1 to L2, at what point should instruction in L2 begin, and can lexical access be …

Educación Ambiental Bilingüe, Kirsten Brewer

Pitzer Senior Theses

El enfoque de esta tesis es un proyecto de servicio-aprendizaje en una clase bilingüe de kinder en el área metropolitana de Los Ángeles. Los estudiantes recibieron un temario de educación ambiental por dos horas a la semana durante la primavera de 2008. Un estudio de la educación ambiental y la educación bilingüe da un contexto social y historico a este trabajo práctico. Describe las lecciones y su significado dentro del contexto. Hay recommendaciones a seguir para proyectos similares en el sitio de estudio.

If Our Students Fail, We Fail, If They Succeed We Succeed: Case Studies Of Boston Schools Where Latino Students Succeed, Eileen De Los Reyes, David Nieto, Virginia Diez

Gastón Institute Publications

This report focuses on the findings of five case studies of Boston schools whose Latino students are succeeding academically. The purpose of the study is to identify the characteristics of schools where Latino students succeed so that it can serve as a guide to educators as they plan for programs directed at these students as well as to parents as they choose educational settings for their children.

If Our Students Fail, We Fail. If They Succeed We Succeed reports on case studies of the Manassah E. Bradley Elementary, the Hugh R. O’Donnell Elementary, the Donald McKay K-8 School, Fenway High …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 18, Número 9, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
Agradecimiento a Highlands 5
Agradecimiento a Highlands 3
El Presidente de Highlands: Dr. James Fries 4
Otros Amigos de AMIGOS en Highlands 5
Un Evento Anual en Highlands: la Fiesta de la Hispanidad 6
Una Actividad: Un Acróstico de Highlands 7
Idiomas Indígenas 2
Programas Bilingües en Nuevo México 8
Efforts to Save Native American Languages 9
Autores de Nuevo México 1
Voices from the Past: "Memoirs of a Young Girl" by Robert Tórrez 10,11
Respuesta al Crucigrama #8 11
Nuevo México: A History Anthology 1
Asuntos de la Salud Hispana 14
New Deal 2
Artistas …

The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints' Indian Student Placement Service: A History, Lynette Riggs

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

From 1947 to 1996, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints operated a foster program that placed Native American children into Latter-day Saint (LDS) homes to attend public schools and be immersed in Mormon culture. This program, the Indian Student Placement Program, is described through LDS perspectives as being generally successful. The children were baptized into the LDS church, removed from the reservations, and relocated to live with white Mormon families where they attended public schools and were expected to conform to white cultural life ways. Critics charge that the program was a missionary tool used to assimilate children …

Missionary English Teaching: The English Language, Western Culture, And Christianity, Derek J. Kresge

Senior Honors Theses

Teaching English as a missionary has become a significantly larger field in the recent years. These missionaries are confronted with a unique set of circumstances in which they perform their service. As English teachers, these missionaries are faced with the dilemma of teaching as best they can while at the same time living as followers of Christ in cultures that may be opposed to Christ as well as to the Western culture. This thesis unwraps the issues involved and discusses possible solutions to the problems that present themselves for missionary English teachers.

The Right To Learn Across The Tracks: An Analysis Of School Funding And Integration In Seattle, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago And Washington, D.C., Erin M. Pollard

Politics Honors Papers

Through examining the levels of integration in public and private schools across the United States, it is clear that the spirit of Brown v. Board of Education was never fulfilled. Students are still learning in an overwhelmingly homogeneous environment. Even in diverse neighborhoods there is a difference: the poor and minority children attend the public schools and the wealthy children attend private school. Thus, the urban public schools remain overwhelmingly minority, while private schools are overwhelmingly white. There is a clear discrepancy between black and white students in terms of size of school and quality of education.

To determine whether …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 18, Número 8, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
Flores 5
Flores 3
La Polilla de Yucca 4
Flores de Nuevo México 5
Flores/Semillas como Comida 6
Un Poema: Las Flores 7
New Deal 2
Artistas Hispanos del WPA 8
Otro Edificio del WPA: Scholes Hall, la Universidad de Nuevo México 9
Autores de Nuevo México 1
Voices from the Past: The Circus Comes to Town by Robert Tórrez 10,11
Una Actividad: Palabras Revueltas 12
Hispanic Health: Respiratory Disorders 13,14
El Condado de Bernalillo: Espacio Abierto 15
Agricultural Experiment Stations 16
Idiomas Indígenas: Towa 17
Atrisco por Barbara Armijo 18
Hispanic Folk Songs of New …

Closing The Gap

Closing the Gap Newsletter

Newsletter of the College of Education

Languages For The Nation

Dimensions

SCOLT Dimensions Volume 43

Status Of Latino Education In Massachusetts: A Report, Nicole Lavan, Miren Uriarte

Gastón Institute Publications

Educational reform has brought great improvements in educational outcomes for Massachusetts students. In the past decade, achievement scores have risen for all students in Massachusetts; today the Commonwealth ranks first among all states in the overall National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores. However, it also ranks among the five states with the widest “gap” in achievement between white and Latino students in both NAEP Math and Reading. These gaps in achievement show that the benefits are not reaching all children. Latinos especially, but also African American children, are often left behind in a state with excellent academic institutions. Examining …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 18, Número 7, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
Unos Aspectos de... 3
El Centro Nacional de Cultura Hispana 3
El Centro Español de Recursos 4
Publicaciones del Centro Nacional de Cultura Hispana 5
Autores de Nuevo México 5
This is Home by Lennell Storey 6
Excerpt from Tortuga by Rudolfo Anaya 7
Voices from the Past: A Trip to Isleta, 1858 by Robert Tórrez 8,9
Green Chile Stew by Paul S. Hoeg 9
Actividad: Escribir un Poema o Párrafo 10
New Deal 2
Artistas Hispanos del WPA 11
Otro Edificio del WPA: Fitch Hall, New Mexico Tech 12
El Condado de Bernalillo: Control de …

Discomfort, Deficiency, Dedication: Pre-Service Teachers Voice Their Ell-Related Concerns, Wendy J. Glenn, Mileidis Gort

Teaching and Learning Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.

Persistence Of Vision: Hegemony And Counterhegemony In The Everyday, Roberto E. Bahruth

Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations

A gathering of subjects of history, activists who are engaging in the struggle for humanization, provides the ideal circumstance for pedagogical explorations that are generative and organic. Contrary to state-sponsored schooling, where inductees are treated as objects, receptacles of what Gabbard³ refers to as "the secular gospel," participants in the International Institute of Peace Education (IIPE) 2008 held in Haifa, Israel demonstrated the power of critical pedagogical encounters to move people to act not only with clarity and determination in, but also if necessary, against the everyday. After years of cultural work in a variety of terrains of engagement, …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 18, Número 6, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
Las Mercedes 4
La Historia en Abiquiú 3
El Día del Tratado, 2 de Febrero, 2009 4
Legislación Propuesta para Mercedes, 2009 5
Información en la Red sobre Mercedes 6
Autores de Nuevo México 2
A Second Opinion on Atrisco/Westland by Max Rosenstock 7
"New Mexico’s Archives" by Robert Tórrez 8,9
Respuesta al Crucigrama (#5) 9
“You Are” by Mark Mondragón 10
Una Actividad: Un Corazón de 3 Dimensiones 11
New Deal 2
Artistas Hispanos del WPA 12
Otro Edificio del WPA: Edificio de Administración del ENMU 13
Estaciones Agrícolas de Experimentación 14
Idiomas Indígenas: Tewa …

“Everything She Knew": Race, Nation, Language, And Identity In Philip Pullman’S The Broken Bridge, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

A decade before his international acclaim for the His Dark Materials fantasy series, Pullman authored The Broken Bridge, a coming-of-age tale featuring Ginny, an Afro-British teenaged girl living in postmodern coastal Wales. The Broken Bridge delves into dilemmas of racial identity, ideologies of language and location, and aspects of non-Western religion that are not often touched upon in young adult literature. Pullman’s deft characterization prevents Ginny from becoming a caricature; instead, he presents the story of a very real sixteen-year-old girl with resentments, fears, and doubts. Ultimately, The Broken Bridge serves as a metaphor for the irreconcilability between an …

Making A Difference, Rachel Rasmussen, Tawny Macdonald, Sarah Teschler

Service-Learning Program

Volunteering at the ANA meant helping new Americans feel welcome in a new place. It meant helping people feel capable at new things, make connections, and feel like they belong. We assisted them to become leaders of tomorrow.

By lending a helping hand to a family, we were embraced by the sharing of two totally different yet very similar cultures. They taught us, we taught them

Assessment Of Adult Esl Learners’ Preferable Learning Styles : Implications For An Effective Language Learning Environment, Kayoko Yamauchi

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This research was conducted to investigate how adult ESL students learn effectively according to their learning preferences and their cultural/educational backgrounds. A total of 117 respondents in this study were categorized in three types: 58 language-based ESL students (L-B ESL students), 48 content-based ESL students (C-B ESL students), and 11 ESL teachers at Marshall University. In 2008, during the fourth week of September, the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) and a demographic questionnaire were administered to both L-B ESL students and C-B ESL students at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia. Descriptive statistics, including correlation analysis, were used to describe and …