(1980). Disruptive Youth in School: A Report from the CEC Invisible College Conference on Education's Responsibility for Disruptive, Alienated, and Incarcerated Youth. Thirteen author contributed papers are presented from a 1979 conference on disruptive, alienated, and incarcerated youth. Presenters represented fields of education, social work, public policy, and psychology. Included are the following titles and authors: \Juvenile Justice: Where We Have Been and Are Today\ (R. Sarri); \Youth as a National Resource\ (L. Dye); \Education for Self Reliance\ (J. Johnson); \Community and School Partnership: Youth Rights and the Role of Advocates\ (M. Beyer); \Effects of Gender on the Differential Development of Adolescent Boys and Girls\ (V. Gold); \Basic, Vocational, and Special Education: Whose Responsibility?\ (G. Meers); \Secondary Special Education: A Case of Benign Neglect\ (D. Sabatino); \From the Desk of the Principal: Perspectives on a School Based Community Treatment Program for Disruptive Youth\ (E. Rothman); \The Teachers Hot Line: Teachers Helping Teachers\ (E. Rothman); \Bilingual Bicultural Education: The Right to a Free and Appropriate… [PDF]
(1988). Immediate Pertinence in the Acquisition of Multilingual Proficiency: The European Schools. Canadian Modern Language Review, v44 n2 p240-60 Jan. The structure and programs of the multilingual European Schools network are outlined, focusing on the role of language in the curriculum. The schools' linguistic outcomes are compared with those of Canada's immersion programs. The use of social engineering to foster multilingual contacts is discussed. (MSE)…
(1999). Intercultural Education and Literacy: An Ethnographic Study of Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in the Peruvian Amazon. Studies in Written Language and Literacy, Volume 7. This book examines indigenous education in South America, focusing on the development of intercultural education and on an ethnographic study of educational processes and change among the Arakmbut people of the Peruvian Amazon. The Arakmbut are one of seven Harakmbut-speaking peoples who live in the Department of Madre de Dios in southeastern Peru. Since the introduction of primary schooling in the 1950s, Arakmbut children have been exposed to missionary schooling that has denied their language, culture, and learning processes. This situation exists despite developing government advocacy of intercultural bilingual education. Arakmbut traditional teaching practices and learning strategies are exclusively oral. An assessment of the Arakmbut experience of formal education, their attitudes toward schooling, and responses to the proposed introduction of biliteracy considers whether intercultural education based on a biliterate, schooled model can promote indigenous learning practices and…
(1999). Literacy and Effective Teaching in Diverse Classrooms. This study explored the ways in which English educators could most effectively plan and implement their teaching to best serve the multi-literacies of the diverse student populations in today's schools. The researcher conducted interviews with classroom English teachers and teacher educators in north Alabama to gain the participants' perceptions of their effectiveness in teaching diverse literacies, opportunities for practicing effective strategies and pedagogical skills, and opportunities for improving teaching and learning and professional development. Data analysis indicated that the teachers often felt unprepared to teach the multiple literacies required in the diverse classroom populations they served. Because of time constraints and test score demands for students, the teachers felt that they were limited in teaching and modeling effective teaching strategies and multi-literacy pedagogical skills, especially connected to writing. Professional development and inservice… [PDF]
(1990). Toward a Model in Applied Cross-Cultural Education: CSUN/Ensenada Teacher Institute. Social Studies Review, v29 n3 p77-79 Spr. Presents a cross-cultural training program at California State University (Northridge), in which U.S. student teachers live with Mexican families in Ensenada, Mexico; teach English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) to Mexican high school students; and learn about Mexican school system. Argues that experience awakens students to Mexico's cultural diversity and will serve them well when working as teachers in United States. (CH)…
(1993). Prospective Teachers' Perspectives on Teaching Diverse Children: A Review with Implications for Teacher Education and Practice. Journal of Negro Education, v62 n4 p459-74 Fall. This exploration of the preparation teachers should receive to be able to deal with the diversity of students emphasizes that reforms for diversity must involve colleagues and communities and that no single activity is an adequate preparation for teaching diverse populations. No reform effort to date has addressed the issues of diversity adequately. (SLD)…
(1998). Crisis in the Heartland: Addressing Unexpected Challenges in Rural Education. Journal of Research in Rural Education, v14 n1 p45-49 Spr. Recent increases in cultural and linguistic diversity in Kansas have raised three challenges for educators, especially rural educators: geographic isolation, capacity building, and professional development. Describes innovative, nontraditional programs developed by Kansas State University to help educators meet these challenges, including distance education, collaborative site-specific adaptations of curriculum and instruction, and cross-cultural sensitivity training. (TD)… [PDF]
(1996). Teachers as Cultural Brokers in the Midst of Diversity. Educational Foundations, v10 n2 p37-52 Spr. Highlights problematic relationships between society, teachers, students, and schooling as exemplified by structural and cultural inequality, unequal power relations, domination, racism, sexism, and hegemony in American schools. After describing how some institutions prepare educators for diversity and equity, the paper explicates the curriculum that can empower those traditionally disempowered. (SM)…
(1996). Dealing with Student Diversity through the Case-Study Approach. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, v67 n5 p46-50 May-Jun. A case study approach can help preservice teachers develop effective strategies for handling situations that arise as they teach diverse students in public schools. This article presents teaching hints for the case study approach, offering a sample scenario for a seventh-grade middle school physical education class. (SM)…
(1993). A Cultural Diversity Plan. In 1991, the Platte Campus of Central Community College (CCC) in Columbus, Nebraska, received a Beacon Grant to work with nine other colleges to promote cultural/work force diversity at the colleges and produce measurable results. The goals of the project were to expand programs to accommodate leadership diversity, design innovative staff development programs, develop personnel practices to enhance the recruitment and retention of women and minorities, provide in-service training in using curriculum components and classroom techniques that foster multicultural sensitivity, and disseminate information about project activities widely. The Platte Cultural Diversity Task Force Committee was formed to encourage campus-wide participation and support, educate campus leaders, and coordinate activities with other campuses. During 1991-92, the committee sponsored a variety of activities, including an area-wide meeting to explain the goals of the Beacon project; a series of lunches featuring… [PDF]
(1991). Taking Time and Proceeding with Caution: Time and Process in a Cambodian Life History Documentation Project. Philadelphia Folklore Project Working Papers #6. This paper discusses the process of ethnographic research and some reasons it might not go as smoothly as researchers or funders have planned. The paper's orientation is from that of a folklorist, but some of the cautionary matter may apply as well to oral historians and others involved in multicultural projects. The research was to conduct 15-20 life historical interviews within 7 months in 1990-91 to document life histories and life cycle rituals in the Cambodian community in Philadelphia. Although several Cambodians were contacted and provided information, only two interviews were conducted during this time. The report covers four areas that had a significant impact on the success or failure of this project and may affect other multicultural projects in general: (1) time: It takes time to understand a new culture; also, people have other things going on in their lives; (2) language: When using translators, interviews became more complex; non-verbal forms of communication are… [PDF]
(1989). Readings in American History (In Their Own Words), Book III. New Directions for the United States and Teacher's Guide. This skills-text is the third of four books in the series \Readings in American History.\ The materials allow opportunities to improve reading and comprehension skills in a subject matter context by using certain primary sources related to the topic. Book 3 covers the period from the Civil War to 1900. Each lesson includes short readings with exercises and questions to allow students to explore the topic. The volume includes: (1) \Slavery Divides the Nation\; (2) \Letters and Diaries from the Civil War\; (3) \Emancipation\; (4) \Black Soldiers in the Civil War\; (5) \The Effort at Reconstruction\; (6) \Westward Ho\; (7) \The Black Exodus of 1879\; (8) \A Century of Dishonor Toward Native Americans\; (9) \The Farmer's Revolt\; (10) \The Rise of Big Business\; (11) \The Rise of Labor Unionism\; (12) \The New Immigrants\; (13) \The Election of 1896\; and (14) \Imperialism and Racism.\ A review section, glossary, and teacher's guide are included. (EH)…
(1989). Readings in American History (In Their Own Words), Book IV. The United States in the Twentieth Century and Teacher's Guide. This skills-text is one of four books in the series \Readings in American History.\ The materials allow opportunities to improve reading and comprehension skills in a subject matter context by using certain primary sources related to the topic. Book 4 covers the period from World War I through the Reagan years. Each lesson includes short readings with exercises and questions to allow students to explore the topic. The volume includes: (1) \The United States and the First World War\; (2) \Votes for Women\; (3) \The Prosperity Decade\; (4) \'Wall St. Lays an Egg' in 1929\; (5) \Depression Times\; (6) \Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal\; (7) \'Infamy' at Pearl Harbor\; (8) \'D-Day' in France\; (9) \Atomic Horror at Hiroshima\; (10) \The Cold War, the Truman Doctrine, and the Marshall Plan\; (11) \John F. Kennedy and a Dream of 'Camelot'\; (12) \The 'Black Revolution'\; (13) \The Vietnam Experience\; (14) \Crisis at Watergate\; (15) \The Women's Revolution\; and (16) \The Reagan…
(1996). Crossing Boundaries: Multi-National Action Research on Family-School Collaboration. Report No. 33. This report details studies by eight researchers from five countries–Australia, Chile, the Czech Republic, Portugal, and Spain–that examine boundary-crossing issues between teachers and parents, between policies and school reality, between cultures, and between research and practice. All of the studies were based in elementary schools and involved collaboration among university or research organizations and schools. The study's objectives were: to identify the commonalities and differences of approaches and results in five countries seeking to increase family involvement in school; (2) to learn what works, what doesn't, and under what conditions; (3) to explore the use of different approaches to participatory, or "action," research; and (4) to stimulate further multi-national studies and projects through the Center on Families, Communities, Schools and Children's Learning International Network. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction" (D. Davies and V. Johnson);… [PDF]
(1990). Literary Themes in the Arts of China, Japan, and India. Suggested Grade Level: High School. This packet is designed to reinforce the approach to literary art themes introduced at the "Arts of Asia" workshop, sponsored by the Asian Art Museum. The packet contains: (1) selected reading passages from the Chinese composition, "The Peach Blossom Spring," the Japanese novel, "The Tale of Genji," and the Indian myth, "Krishna Defeating the Serpent Kaliya"; (2) suggested vocabulary lists; (3) background information about the reading selections; (4) information about the corresponding art objects in the museum; and (5) suggested activities and discussion topics for the classroom. Contains a 30-item bibliography. (EH)…