(2001). Why Pick on Me? School Exclusion and Black Youth. This book examines school exclusion in the United Kingdom, particularly the exclusion of black males, using data from the author's experience as an advisory teacher for multicultural education and from four studies of black students. The book highlights school-related determinants of young people's life chances. Chapter 1, "Introduction," describes racism and exclusion. Chapter 2, "The Education of Teachers," discusses the role of preservice education in shaping teachers' attitudes. Chapter 3, "Children, Schools and the Wider Society," discusses race and ethnicity in schools, problems faced by black youth, and how schools contribute to the creation of criminals. Chapter 4, "Leadership and Disciplinary Exclusion," examines the administrator's role. Chapter 5, "Through Students' Eyes," explains how students, particularly black males, feel about discipline, racial bias, respect, stereotypes, and gender issues, and it notes the…
(1979). Every Woman's Right—The Right to Education and Economic Independence. In an effort to provide positive program and procedural alternatives for personnel working in educational and training programs for low-income women, the book presents the current situation of minority female low-income heads of household, especially the Chicana, and offers solutions and recommendations regarding the education and training of such women. Focusing on the socialization and education of women, Section I consists of an extensive review of racism and sexism, and their effects on women; a report on college and vocational programs that encourage or discourage the entry and completion of postsecondary courses by female low-income heads of household; and a description of the components of a potentially successful junior college recruitment, counseling, and retention program; Section II contains a discussion and analysis of two questionnaires which focused on economic, education, and training problems of female low-income heads of household. Concerning the preparation of… [PDF]
(1970). Issues and Realities in Early Childhood Education. This paper investigates three issues vital to early childhood education: (1) sources of curriculum, (2) sources of financial support, and (3) the relationship between racism and compensatory education. \Natural\ childhood and child development theories are discussed, and their use as a source of curriculum for young children is questioned, as is the use of intelligence tests. Sources of financial support have been federal programs, the public schools, and private owners. New to the field are corporate franchise and chain operations which have inherent dangers: use of standardized curriculum and procedure; the possibility that profit motive may cut costs at the expense of the children; and the freedom to be racially restrictive. Benefits may be innovativeness and independence from political pressure. The Kerner Commission recommendation that more preschool compensatory education programs be provided in black ghetto areas seems designed to make black children behave more like white,… [PDF]
(1995). Out of Our Minds: Anti-Intellectualism and Talent Development in American Schooling. Education and Psychology of the Gifted Series. In interpreting the intellectual and cultural contexts of gifted education, this book considers how and why U.S. schooling fails to care for intellect and to develop the talents of all children. Rather than acting as stewards charged with nurturing intellectual development, schools concertedly devalue intellect, and this shortcoming is most striking in the case of the gifted. The culture of schools conditions responses from teachers, students, and parents that constrain learning to specific instrumental purposes. Such objectives are based in prevailing societal values and are part of the larger aims of preparing \competitive\ workers to serve the nation's economic interest and, in the case of gifted students, producing efficient and pragmatic technicians and managers who will respond uncritically to what their employers ask of them. Chapters in this book discuss the origins and mechanisms of anti-intellectualism in U.S. schools; how gifted education devalues intellect; effects of…
(1984). Concerns of Asian Indians: An Exploratory Thematic Content Analysis of Unobtrusive Documentary Data for Asian American Research. This paper investigates the priority of social and political issues in America's Asian Indian subcommunity and, secondarily, proposes content analysis for investigations of Asian American sub-cultures. The data sources and methodology are described first: letters to the editor published between September 1, 1983 and June 30, 1984, were selected from two newspapers, \India Abroad\ (of New York City) and \India-West\ (of San Francisco). One hundred thirty-two letters were identified as relevant to the survey; these are content analyzed under the following themes: (1) communal identity; (2) politicization and participation; (3) Americanization; (4) concern for women and children; (5) discrimination and racism; (6) service delivery by Indian organizations; (7) sub-community pluralism (the largest category); and (8) miscellaneous issues (including education and culture). Two tables are included–one that shows the thematic concern of anonymous letters, and another that profiles the known…
(1978). Desegregation: On the Cutting Edge. A Review and Manual of the Indiana University Training Institute Program in Race and Sex Desegregation. The purposes of this book are (1) to provide a description of the Indiana University School of Education Training Institute's project for training school personnel to address the issues of racial and sexual desegregation, and (2) to supply educators with classroom exercises and activities that focus on racism and sexism and encourage non-prejudiced attitudes and behaviors among students. First, the historical perspective under which the Institute was developed is discussed. A description of the Institute's structure, project design, selection of participants, project objectives, staff, and program activities follows. The results of an evaluation designed to assess individual and Institute success in achieving the goals of the race and sex desegregation program are reviewed. A series of sexism, multicultural, and multiethnic classroom exercises are then provided. Finally, appended to the volume are a list of Institute participants, copies of Institute newsletters, comments of program… [PDF]
(1992). Human Rights Legislation and the Educational Administrator: An Australian Case Study. This report examines how and why Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act (1986) and the Racial Discrimination Act (1975) produced changes in the provision of education services by Queensland and New South Wales for residents of Toomelah. Toomelah is an economically and educationally disadvantaged Aboriginal community in upper New South Wales. The first section describes the events leading to the 1987 "Toomelah Inquiry," conducted by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, which found significant educational and economic deprivation in the area. The second section examines the effect of the inquiry on the provision of education to Toomelah. A public outcry led to the provision of educational services and to efforts to abolish racism. The third section examines the significance of those effects for the educational administrator, who needs an awareness of the greater power of human rights laws. The administrator must recognize a system of… [PDF]
(1990). Perceptions: Volume 25. Numbers 1-4, Fall 1989-Summer 1990. Perceptions, v25 n1-4 Fall 1989-Sum. Four issues of the quarterly publication of the Association of New York State Educators of the Emotionally Disturbed are brought together in this document. Each issue includes an editorial, articles, ideas from classroom teachers, letters to the editor, and abstracts of recent literature. Titles and authors of major articles include: \Providing Success through a Powerful Combination: Mastery Learning and Learning Styles\ (Richard Shands and Carolyn Brunner); \Traumatic Brain Injury: Emerging Issues\ (Ted Kurtz); \Developing Home and School Partnerships\ (Connie Flood and Ralph Flood); \Don't Duck the Tough Questions General Educators Raise about Mainstreaming\ (Carmen Iannaccone and Richard Frazita); \Ethnocentrism and Racism: The Overrepresentation of Minorities and Poor in Special Education Programs for the Emotionally Disturbed\ (Herbert Foster); \Re-Educating Highly Resistant Emotionally Disturbed Students\ (Nicholas Long); \A Description of the Communication Disorders/Hearing…
(1990). Parental Involvement. INAR/NACIE Joint Issues Sessions. National Indian Education Association (NIEA) Annual Conference (22nd, San Diego, California, October 16, 1990). This report summarizes two joint sessions held by the Indian Nations At Risk Task Force and the National Advisory Council on Indian Education to hear testimony on issues related to parent participation in American Indian education. Issues and problems were in the areas of: (1) the importance of parent involvement for student achievement; (2) the need to empower parents who are intimidated by the school system; (3) parent responsibility for teaching culture; (4) institutional barriers to parent involvement, including failure of the school system to be aware of cultural factors or family situations; (5) insufficient funding for community liaison; (6) the need for parent training; (7) racism and lack of cultural sensitivity in the curriculum; and (8) the need for parent and community advocacy to ensure the teaching of Native culture and languages. Also discussed were effective programs and strategies for involving parents, including the development of trust between parents and school;… [PDF]
(2003). The Promise of Multiculturalism and the Permanence of Racism. Despite many heroic victories, the Civil Rights Movement has failed to significantly transform the underlying structure of White domination [according to this didactic essay on multiculturalism and racism]. It can also be said that the multicultural movement, which was an extension of the Civil Rights Movement, has failed to transform the deep structure of White supremacy. The authors believe that if multicultural education is to live up to its promise, we must continue to interrogate the ways in which it, too, reinvents and reproduces Whiteness. We need a more direct pedagogical approach to the problem of White supremacy, which means transforming those Whites who are willing to unlearn their White ideologies and become solidary [sic] with people of color and focusing more on a race-radical education for people of color that works for solidarity across non-White groups. We hope this paper will stir multicultural educators and scholars to intervene in the role that multiculturalism…
(1989). Education for All: A Landmark for Pluralism. Studies of multicultural education in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom are presented to make the argument that multicultural education must be for all children, not only those in minority groups. These 14 papers were collected by the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups established in 1979 by the British government. They are the following: (1) "Education for All: A Landmark in Pluralism" (Gajendra K. Verma); (2) "Equality of Opportunity, Multiculturalism, Anti-Racism and Education for All" (John Rex); (3) "The Origins of the Ethnocentric Curriculum" (Sally Tomlinson); (4) "Education for All: Social Reconstruction or Status Quo?" (Millicent E. Poole; Judyth M. Sachs); (5) "The Pluralist Dilemma Revisited" (Brian M. Bullivant); (6) "Education for All: A Canadian Dimension" (Christopher Bagley); (7) "International Interdependence: Swann's…
(1991). A Multicultural Focus on Career Education. Information Series No. 348. The purpose of this literature review is to illustrate the implications of cultural diversity for career education and development. Discussed first are census data demonstrating the rapid increases in population of such groups as Asians/Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics. Differences in world view are explored next, with an explanation of how differences in Locus of Control and Locus of Responsibility are influenced by cultural heritage and life experiences. The relevance for diverse populations of career development theories based on a white male, middle-class population is questioned. Appropriate intervention methods for specific groups, the unique challenges facing culturally diverse women, and communication issues are discussed. The cross-cultural awareness continuum is presented as a tool career personnel can use to gauge their growth in intercultural competence. The levels of the continuum are as follows: (1) self-awareness; (2) awareness of… [PDF]
(1985). Development of Curriculum Strategies for Schools in Multicultural Education. NACCME Commissioned Research Paper No. 2. This paper explores, in an Australian context, effective multicultural curriculum strategies which can be developed at the school level. Many factors which impinge upon curriculum development and outcomes are beyond the control of individual schools, including state multicultural education policy and its relationship to more general curriculum policy, funding procedures, the narrow orientation of some teacher education, school staffing policies, and competing social education goals. Most educators agree that multicultural education should promote tolerance and intercultural understanding. However, teaching about "different cultures" can still leave students blind to society's inequalities and how they are perpetuated. Fundamentals of good multicultural education include attention to (1) the community's social composition and climate; (2) quality English language teaching; (3) compulsory learning of a language other than English; (4) incorporation of multicultural…
(1989). [Policy Statements on Quality and Effectiveness in Undergraduate Education; Urban State Colleges and Universities; Business Activities of Colleges and Universities; Economic Development: A Major Responsibility for AASCU Institutions; Policy Statement on the Humanities; Racism and Campus Diversity; and Policy Statement on Sexual Harassment]. Seven pamphlets by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) contain policy statements on the following subjects: (1) quality and effectiveness in undergraduate higher education (stressing the need for a redefinition of educational quality at the undergraduate level); (2) urban state colleges and universities (educating urban students, research and the urban area, and public service in the urban community); (3) business activities of colleges and universities (resolution adopted by the AASCU membership, policy statement and guidelines on education business activities of colleges and universities, and guidelines); (4) economic development: a major responsibility for AASCU institutions (institutional mission and economic development, AASCU institutions: a unique resource for economic development, institutional issues and concerns in economic development, faculty incentives for economic development, sources of funding economic development programs, and reasons…
(2000). Vouchers: A Trap, Not a Choice. California School Vouchers Will Increase Racial Inequaltiy. This report asserts that there are inaccuracies in proponents claims that vouchers represent an opportunity for families of color to achieve a more equitable education for their children. Six sections discuss "The Problematic Background of Proposition 38 and Other Voucher Programs" (the racist history of vouchers and the current national picture); "How Vouchers Can Lead to Discrimination: Parents Don't Get to Choose, Schools Do" (private schools can deny admission to voucher students, and there is no way to hold private schools accountable for racism); "Vouchers Exacerbate Existing Inequality" (universal choice means white choice, private schools lack services that low income people need, and the voucher amount is not enough to establish good schools); "A California Voucher Program Would Leave Most Students of Color in Weakened Public Schools"; "Support for Education Reform Does Not Equal Support for Proposition 38" (polls are… [PDF]