Holzman, Lois; Strickland, Gloria (1989). Developing Poor and Minority Children as Leaders with the Barbara Taylor School Educational Model. Journal of Negro Education, v58 n3 p383-98 Sum. Describes the Barbara Taylor Educational Model, developed and implemented in Harlem (New York) and in day care and Head Start programs of the Somerset Community Action Program (New Jersey). Presents case studies illustrating how the model enables students to overcome barriers to their development posed by racism, sexism, and classism. (MW)…

Gold, Nora (1996). Putting Anti-Semitism on the Anti-racism Agenda in North American Schools of Social Work. Journal of Social Work Education, v32 n1 p77-89 Win. Anti-Semitism is discussed in the context of the social work profession's explicit commitment to multiculturalism and antiracism efforts in education and practice. Concrete suggestions for integrating anti-Semitism with other antiracism course content are offered, initiatives currently under way in North American schools of social work are noted, and recommendations are made for professional policy development. (Author/MSE)…

Nessel, Paula (1995). Instructional Resources. Update on Law-Related Education, v19 n1 p47-49 Win. Provides a 32-item annotated bibliography of recommended instructional materials on cultural pluralism, equal protection, and constitutional rights. Includes materials for both students and teachers. Categorizes the 32 items as books, periodicals, computer software, videotapes, and other materials. (CFR)…

Elliot, Ian (1994). Phase II: Implementing a Design for Learning. Teaching PreK-8, v25 n3 p42-46 Nov-Dec. Describes the activities of the Elizabeth Street Learning Center, a kindergarten through grade-10 school in Los Angeles that emphasizes multiage classrooms, parent education, and year-round activities. The school, which serves a mainly Mexican-American population, is funded by the New American Schools Development Corporation, a private consortium established to develop new, high performance schools. (MDM)…

Miller, Phyllis K.; And Others (1994). Learning through Art: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Art Education, v47 n4 p25-28,45-48 Jul. Describes a collaborative project involving teachers, administrators, university faculty, and museum staff that developed two interdisciplinary instructional kits. Includes four lesson plans combining social studies, language arts, science, and mathematics with art instruction. Also includes four full-page, color photographs of art objects. (CFR)…

Hoffman, Barry Charles (1994). How to Drum Up a Conversation in a Required Music Class. Teaching Music, v1 n6 p26-27 Jun. Describes activities in a secondary music class in which students communicate with talking drums. Maintains that the class project was developed during a teaching unit on the musical practices of the Ashanti ethnic group in Ghana. Includes instructions for making talking drums and four examples of orchestrating name rhythms for drums. (CFR)…

Goodkin, Doug (1994). Diverse Approaches to Multicultural Music. Music Educators Journal, v81 n1 p39-43 Jul. Asserts that there is an educational trend to include multicultural music in the curriculum. Questions how music teachers can integrate multicultural material. Provides suggestions including the use of culture studies, celebrations and holidays, song themes, and instrument types as springboards for teaching cultural pluralism. (CFR)…

D'Andrea, Michael (1995). Using Computer Technology to Promote Multicultural Awareness among Elementary School-Age Students. Elementary School Guidance & Counseling, v30 n1 p45-54 Oct. Elementary school teachers, administrators, and counselors need to implement educational strategies that effectively help children develop skills necessary to manage technological demands and interpersonal challenges related to living in a highly diverse modern society. Discusses projects and activities that involve the use of computers among elementary school students. (JBJ)…

Russell-Chapin, Lori A.; Stoner, Charles R. (1995). Mental Health Counselors as Consultants for Diversity Training. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, v17 n2 p146-56 Apr. Argues that mental health counselors need to devote more attention to minority group issues. In light of a society that is rapidly becoming even more diverse in its make-up, a rationale and specific techniques enabling a mental health counselor to serve in the capacity of a consultant are presented. (JBJ)…

(1993). Considering Ethnic Culture. Beginnings Workshop. Child Care Information Exchange, n90 p29-55 Mar-Apr. This series of six articles presents information that will enable child care providers and parents to understand and work with children from Hispanic, African-American, American Indian, and Asian families and with biracial children and interracial families. One article offers directors strategies to increase cultural awareness in teachers. (MDM)…

Reilly, David H. (1993). Educational Leadership: A New Vision and a New Role within an International Context. Journal of School Leadership, v3 n1 p9-20 Jan. Addresses two levels of educational leadership, focusing on a second-level envisionment that transcends national interests and aims to improve the social conditions of all nations and all individuals. This new leadership definition has policy implications that should be supported by resource allocations and a forum promoting education as an equity-driven international resource. (25 references) (MLH)…

Cardis, Richard J.; Risinger, C. Frederick (1994). Contemporary Trends in Social Studies. Social Studies and the Young Learner, v6 n3 p4-5,22 Jan-Feb. Contends that U.S. educational change is characterized by several factors including rapid demographic shifts, new research into the nature of teaching and learning, and dissatisfaction with students' achievement on national tests. Includes an annotated bibliography of 16 ERIC articles and documents on the topic. (CFR)…

Cheng, Li-Rong Lilly (1990). Recognizing Diversity: A Need for a Paradigm Shift. American Behavioral Scientist, v34 n2 p263-78 Nov-Dec. Contends that accepting a paradigm shift by universities means learning to respect culturally diverse students and recognizing cognitive style differences. Argues for systematic change in colleges and universities to redefine themselves as culturally plural. Contends educators must develop cross-cultural communicative competence for effective instruction of ethnic minorities. (NL)…

Whitin, David J. (1993). Looking at the World from a Mathematical Perspective. Arithmetic Teacher, v40 n8 p438-41 Apr. Discusses factors that influence the shapes of houses built in different cultures. Poses the problem of building a house with optimal floor space given a fixed amount of material for the walls. Discusses students' findings, questions raised during group discussions, and mathematical concepts utilized to solve the problem. (MDH)…

Reimer, Bennett (1993). Music Education in Our Multimusical Culture. Music Educators Journal, v79 n7 p21-26 Mar. Maintains that music educators have struggled for decades with issues related to a \multimusical culture.\ Contends that balancing the musical traditions of Western civilization and honoring the varieties of music of cultural subgroups is a major issue in contemporary music education. (CFR)…

Lannak, Jane (1999). The Founding of Colegio Menor San Francisco de Quito. Journal of Education, v181 n1 p19-37. Presents two interviews describing the creation of the Colegio Menor in Quito, Ecuador, a bilingual renaissance school that teaches Ecuadorian children both Spanish and English. The first interview describes an American university professor's experiences in helping design and develop the school. The second interview is with an Ecuadorian preschool teacher who became the director of school's Early Childhood program. (SM)…

Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed. (2014). Education's Role in Preparing Globally Competent Citizens. BCES Conference Books, Volume 12. Bulgarian Comparative Education Society This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The volume also includes papers submitted to the International Symposium on Comparative Sciences, organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society in Sofia, in October 2013. The 12th BCES Conference theme is "Education's Role in Preparing Globally Competent Citizens." The 2nd Partner Conference theme is "Contemporary Science and Education: New Challenges — New Decisions." The book consists of 103 papers, written by 167 authors and co-authors, and grouped into 7 parts. Parts 1-4 comprise papers submitted to the 12th BCES Conference, and Parts 5-7 comprise papers submitted to the 2nd Partner Conference. The 103… [PDF]

McNeely, Sharon L. (1998). Title VII Special Alternative Grant, BRIDGES: Collaborative Teaching in Bilingual and ESL. Year Three-Plus, 1997-1998. Evaluation Report. This document presents the evaluation results for Cicero Public School District #99 (Illinois) in the third year of funding for a special alternative federal grant which provides collaborative teams of bilingual and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers the means to support each other, their students, and the parents of their students through training, collaboration, and development of materials and resources. In the course of this evaluation, teachers responded to surveys, on-site visits were conducted by the external evaluator, and additional data, both quantitative and qualitative, were collected and analyzed. Among the purposes of this project were to increase literacy development for students designated Limited English Proficient (LEP); to develop LEP students' literacy skills in areas of English, math, and science; and to increase the professional development opportunities and instructional repertoires of bilingual teachers of LEP students. The project was successful in… [PDF]

Karaman, Bushra; Wingfield, Marvin (1995). Arab Stereotypes and American Educators. Social Studies and the Young Learner, v7 n4 p7-10 Mar-Apr. Maintains that negative stereotypes of Arabs permeate U.S. popular culture. Discusses Arab stereotypes among educators and the effects of stereotyping on Arab American students. Describes efforts used in the Dearborn, MI, schools to eliminate stereotypes and integrate into the curriculum the study of Arab culture. (CFR)…

Fishman, Joshua A.; And Others (1982). The Acquisition of Biliteracy: A Comparative Ethnography of Minority Ethnolinguistic Schools in New York City. Final Report (First Part). Factors that might influence the acquisition of biliteracy were studied in four schools in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area (an Armenian-English school, a Greek-English school, a Hebrew-English school, and a French-English school). This report, the first of two parts, was written after 2 years of study in which the second year was spent both on further data collection and on confirming and processing data. The effect of studying two different scripts, and societal, pedagogical, and dialectal influences were addressed. Based on ethnographic observations, it is concluded that: (1) the students seemed to read and write English at least as well as those in monoliterate schools, and were also reading another language reasonably well; (2) discrepant writing systems rarely posed difficulty for biliteracy acquisition; (3) discrepancies between the spoken and printed language did not seem to complicate biliteracy acquisition any more than they do for monoliteracy acquisition; (4)… [PDF]

Fishman, Joshua A. (1982). The Acquisition of Biliteracy: A Comparative Ethnography of Four Minority Ethnolinguistic Schools in New York City. Final Report (Second/Final Part). Factors that might influence the acquisition of biliteracy were studied in four schools in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area (an Armenian-English school, a Greek- English school, a Hebrew-English school, and a French- English school). This report is the final part of a two- part report and deals with the tabulation and analysis of ethnographic observations. The effect of studying two different scripts was a major concern of the research, which employed a school ethnography approach (Green and Wallat, 1981). Observational data for four grades in the four schools were coded for additional analysis. Findings include the following: (1) writing system differences were reduced by emphasizing the printing system (whether by reading or writing print), particularly in the earliest grades; (2) reading received the most attention, followed by writing, and speaking; (3) little evidence was found of either out-of-school participation in literacy acquisition or of topical emphasis on matters… [PDF]

Petrini, Alma Maria (1970). ESOL-SESD Guide: Kindergarten. Michigan Oral Language Series. This guide, designed to support language arts programs in teaching English to speakers of other languages and in teaching standard English as a second dialect, is for use by teachers of language-handicapped children at the kindergarten level. The 135 half hour lessons, covering one year's work, may be used with mixed groups since the basic sentence structures are presented through Kindergarten-like activities and geared to the children's conceptual and physical needs. Sentence patterns and vocabulary to be introduced or reviewed in each lesson are listed at the top of each lesson. The lessons contain a heading, brief description paragraph, example dialogues, and a listing of required audio-visual materials. A Spanish interference and dialect interference sheet and a technique for teaching pattern practice are included. (RL)… [PDF]

Garrett, Peter; And Others (1994). Use of the Mother Tongue in Second Language Classrooms: An Experimental Investigation of Effects on the Attitudes and Writing Performance of Bilingual UK Schoolchildren. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v15 n5 p371-83. A study of mother tongue (MT) use in second-language classrooms was conducted in United Kingdom primary schools in two bilingual settings: North Wales (Welsh/English) and Lancashire (Mirpur Punjabi/English). Prewriting activities were carried out with comparable pairs of classes (MT or English, second language). Although attitudes in the MT groups improved, writing performance showed no change. (30 references) (LR)…

Olson, Kate (2007). Lost Opportunities to Learn: The Effects of Education Policy on Primary Language Instruction for English Learners. Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, v18 n2 p121-141 Sum. This study examines the implications that state educational policies, such as high-stakes testing in English and Proposition 227, have on teaching and learning in primary language instruction for English learners in California. Utilizing cultural-historical activity theory of learning and development, this qualitative case study uncovers the impact these reforms have on primary language instruction, bilingual teachers and their students through the use of participant observations, teacher and administrator interviews, and discourse analysis of classroom interaction. The study demonstrates that the pressure to test well on the SAT-9 assessment compelled bilingual teachers to organize their primary language instruction to skill and drill teaching in Spanish. The findings illustrate the students' lost opportunities to learn and participate in more robust, student-centered literacy practices in their native language, facilitating the analysis of the efficacy of school reform and its… [Direct]

Chun, Judith, Ed. (1979). Second Language Acquisition Notes and Topics, Vol. 9, No. 2. This edition of a newsletter for second language researchers and teachers features an article by Lars Henric Ekstrand, "Report on Organization and Research in Programs of Bilingual and Bicultural Adaptation in Sweden." Programs of instruction in Swedish for immigrant adults and children, including teacher training policies, are described. Second language research projects in progress in Sweden are sketched. Also in this issue are: (1) reports from various second language conferences, (2) a brief report by Thomas Scovel on English as a foreign language in China, and (3) a listing of upcoming conferences and institutes on second language learning. (JB)…

Baker, Lois; Hinitz, Blythe F. (1978). Bibliography of Selected Resources for the International Year of the Child. This bibliography addresses some of the needs of the many participants in the International Year of the Child (1979), and provides data regarding sources of information about young children which are available in the United States. The materials included in this bibliography have been selected from a large number of sources and provide information on topics such as bilingualism, cross cultural studies, exceptional children, child rights/child abuse, international education, miniorities, and multi-cultural/multi-ethnic materials. Author's name, the title, publisher or producer, place of publication, number of pages, and an annotation are provided for each entry. Addresses of sources of further information are included. (Author/MP)… [PDF]

Pulte, William (1978). Are Bilingual-Bicultural Programs Socially Divisive?. Integrated Education, v16 n5 p31-33 Sep-Oct. Many aspects of knowledge needed to function in the mainstream society can be acquired more effectively through the use of a culturally relevant curriculum. This belief is based on the transfer principle, which implies that knowledge of the basic skills is not specific to any culture or language. (Author/EB)…

Gifford, Bernard R.; Gillett, Paula (1986). Teaching in a Great Age of Immigration. Social Education, v50 n3 p184-88 Mar. Examines the challenges the new immigration presents to the public schools. Offers successful responses to these challenges and identifies positive contributions which may result from recent immigration trends. (JDH)…

Malcolm, Ian G. (2001). Apprehending and Appropriating Cultural Imagery in Bidialectal Education. This paper argues that if bidialectal education is to be seriously contemplated for Aboriginal Australians, it should be considered with more than the surface structures of dialectal difference. Bidialectal education programs must be underpinned by an understanding of the meanings carried by Aboriginal English and the processes of interpretation that Aboriginal English speakers are likely to bring to standard English. The paper summarizes work done at Edith Cowan University, Australia, related to bidialectal education, explaining that the university uses the catchphrase "the ABCs of bidialectal education" to refer to three elements that are essential in a comprehensive bidialectal education program: A (Accept Aboriginal English), B (Bridge to standard English), and C (Cultivate indigenous ways of approaching experience and knowledge). This paper focuses on cultural imagery, which constitutes the mental images that, for people in a culture, comprise the world that they… [PDF]

Feurer, Hanny (1993). Beyond Multilingual Education: The Cree of Waskaganish. Canadian Journal of Native Education, v20 n1 p87-95. Traces the 20-year development of the Cree Way Project in Waskaganish, Quebec, which now provides total Cree immersion from preschool through grade 4, trilingual instruction (Cree, English, and French) in upper elementary and secondary grades, culturally adapted curriculum and teaching methods, and extensive culture-based education, including outdoor education and bush camp experiences. (SV)…