(1989). Ideas that Work With Young Children: Parents as Partners in Young Children's Development and Education: A New American Fad? Why Does It Matter?. Young Children, v44 n4 p61-75 May. Focuses on factors that thwart true school-parent partnerships in the development and education of children. Factors include a family's socioeconomic status, democratic issues, the creation of school systems, gender bias against women, teacher priorities, racism, and classism. (Author/BB)…
(2003). Gifted or Not Gifted–Is That the Question?. Understanding Our Gifted, v15 n3 p12-15 Spr. This article discusses the underrepresentation of children from minority backgrounds in gifted education and the ultimate goal of gifted education to make children's lives better. Barriers to appropriate gifted identification are discussed and include state/local requirements and inadequate identification procedures, stereotypes and racism, and pragmatics. (Contains 3 references.) (CR)…
(1992). Curricular Innovations: Social Diversity as Course Content. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, n52 p85-98 Win. A sophomore- or junior-level education course on social diversity in education is described, and techniques used to teach it are discussed. Content includes five subject areas: gender and sexism, race and racism, religious culture and anti-Semitism, sexual orientation and heterosexism, and physical or mental ability and ableism. (MSE)…
(1994). White Racism. Multicultural Education, v1 n4 p5-8,39 Spr. Discusses the tendency of whites to deflect attention from racism, which is the main problem underlying the need for multicultural education, and suggests a role for whites in examining their own generally unrecognized white racial bonding. To mitigate effects of white racial bonding, advocates of multicultural education must recognize them. (SLD)…
(2024). The Coloniality of Learning Platforms in Higher Education. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, v22 n3 p83-86. As an Indigenous scholar engaged in the decolonization of education for forty years, Four Arrows has worked to challenge an over-emphasis on standardization, efficiency, control, corporatizing, power dynamics, Euro-centrism, neoliberalism, and anti-Indianism (Four Arrows, 2006). Instead, he emphasizes diverse, critical, creative, and culturally grounded forms of knowledge production, prioritizing the nature-based worldview precepts that guided humanity well for most of human history. He also attempts to minimize technological interventions if they interfere with more natural ones. This article offers his first attempt to write about the coloniality of online courses and learning platforms. He proposes that learning platforms in higher education reflect a significant degree of coloniality and managerialism (Rodriguez, 2020). They generally emphasize a standardization that fits conventional academic frameworks such as fragmented segments, deadlines, pre-determined syllabi, and… [Direct]
(1981). Education that Is Multicultural and Teacher Preparation: An Examination from the Perspectives of Preservice Students. Journal of Educational Research, v75 n2 p95-101 Nov-Dec. A study attempted to discover the quality of multicultural instruction received by students in a preservice teacher education program. Results showed that the content of the instruction focused primarily on bias in instructional materials and secondarily on racism in schools and society. (JN)…
(1991). The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education. This collection of essays addresses the need for continued research in race-related issues on college campuses. The book examines the causes and the impact of campus racial tensions by studying some key university case studies and by investigating some of the underlying elements of the crisis. Essays and their authors are as follows: \The Racial Dilemma in American Higher Education\ (Philip G. Altbach); \The Changing Demographics: Problems and Opportunities\ (Lewis C. Solmon, Tamara L. Wingard); \Racism and the Model Minority: Asian-Americans in Higher Education\ (Sucheng Chan, Ling-chi Wang); \Race Relations on Campus: An Administrative Perspective\ (Alan Colon); \The Undergraduate Curriculum and the Issues of Race: Opportunities and Obligations\ (Leon Botstein); \Student Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Addressing Underrepresentation\ (William T. Trent); \Black Faculty in Academia\ (Kenneth W. Jackson); \Making the Short List: Black Candidates and the Faculty Recruitment…
(1985). Curriculum Development for a Multicultural Society: Policy and Curriculum. An FEU View. This document collects examples of policies of local education agencies (LEAs), colleges, and others in the area of multicultural education. Guidelines are also presented for those who haven't fully generated and applied policy in this area. Chapter One is an introduction. Chapter Two contains a checklist of questions to enable others to test the assumption that a multicultural society is an important issue for further education. Three broad headings of questions are equal opportunities, multicultural issues, and issues of racism. The questions are cross-referenced with Chapter Three, which offers a series of examples of college and LEA policies, with extracts from documents. Chapter Four contains some preliminary examples of college practice from two different multicultural settings. Main points from surveys of black communities about local further education provision are presented. Appendixes include a listing of documents on education in a multicultural society, a brief summary…
(2009). Black Principals' Perceptions of How Their Racial, Cultural, Personal, and Professional Identities Affect Their Leadership. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston College. This dissertation addresses the negative way that blacks are viewed in mainstream society and how that image affects black educational leaders. Race has been historically used to subordinate blacks in the United States, and research suggests that a key factor in this subordination has been the systematic withdrawal of educational opportunities and access for blacks. This research posits that such racism and discrimination has affected the way blacks have formed their identities, specifically with regard to education. In this multiple-participant case study, black principals were interviewed to determine the ways in which they perceived their racial, cultural, personal, and professional identities to affect their leadership of schools. Findings stated that race heavily affected all areas of participants' identities. Race caused participants to feel more connected to minority students and communities, to advocate high expectations for minority students especially in addition to all… [Direct]
(2003). Reflections on the Field [and] An Examined Life: A Response to James Kauffman's Reflections on the Field. Behavioral Disorders, v28 n3 p205-11 May. Six issues in special education are analyzed: the erosion of science; the decline in the worth of special education; the lack of attention to prevention; the lack of primacy of academic instruction; the erosion of government programs; and the new racism that erodes the centrality of our common humanity. (Contains 3 references.) (CR)…
(2003). Adult Literacy Education on the Canadian Frontier. Adult Basic Education, v13 n1 p3-18 Spr. Canada's Frontier College began in 1899 to bring literacy and citizenship education to immigrant men; in the 1920s it offered university education. However, its early history embodied a legacy of nativism, anticommunism, racism, and sexism as it attempted to assimilate adult literacy learners into Anglo-Canadian sociocultural norms. (Contains 19 references.) (SK)…
(1991). Setting Our Own Agenda: Exploring the Meaning of Gender Disparities among Blacks in Higher Education. Journal of Negro Education, v60 n1 p19-35 Win. Attention to the discrepancy between female progress and male declines among Blacks in higher education detracts from the larger issue of the effects of racism on all Blacks' educational opportunities. Argues for an Afrocentric perspective on the crisis in higher education. Calls for analysis of sex-related achievement differences among Blacks. (AF)…
(1978). Straight Talk About School Desegregation Problems. Theory Into Practice, 17, 2, 100-6, Apr 78. The belief that the education that most white children are getting is quality education and that if black and other cultural groups are integrated into white schools they are better off than if segregated, is inconsistent with the fact that racism and racial bias exist in schools. The result is poorer quality education for all children. (JD)…
(2000). Rediscovering the Lost Tribes in Higher Education. MCT, v18 n2 p34-39 Spr. Discusses the racial dynamic in higher education 1 year after an inquiry into the murder of a black man, Stephen Lawrence, and its rediscovery of institutional racism, examining how the higher education terrain currently feels to black educators. Suggests that the Lawrence inquiry has given higher education administrators a much needed and long overdue shove. (SM)…
(1998). Re-establishing Antiracist Education: A Response to Short and Carrington. Cambridge Journal of Education, v28 n2 p235-38 Jun. Responds to the article "Reconstructing Multicultural Education: a Response to Mike Cole" in which Cole defends his views of antiracist education and the role of cultural racism, the teaching of controversial aspects of other cultures, reconstructed multiculturalism as opposed to student misconceptions, and nationalism within the context of Britishness. (CMK)…