An Annotated Bibliography on Multi-cultural Education

Mary Stone Hanley, a teacher in the teacher Certification Program of Antioch University in Seattle, explains and elaborates some of the issues concerning multicultural development and stops a brief history of the put forward as well as a few suggestions for its improvement in The Scope of multicultural schooling. She explains the ideals and goals of a multicultural approach to rearing and the assertable ways of achieving them through citations of industrial plant from other muckle and of course, from herself. The main targets of her article are the teachers concerned in teaching multicultural groups of students. Her article can overly be use of keens and servicesd to inform other people about the subject of multicultural education. She is still continuing barely researches for the development of multicultural education.John Morefield. Recreating Schools For All Children. New Horizons for Learning.John Morefield conducted extensive researches for the availability of soli d education for all children. When he became the principal of Hawthorne Elementary School in Seattle, Washington, he promised the community that debut kindergartners would graduate with skills at or above expected grade level competency. Thus his researches on what works in diverse communities. His targets are all concerned interviews with emphasis to fellow teachers. His article specifies twelve characteristics that he thinks are needed to have a successful school. He explains that since it is widely accepted that American education has been biased and racist, it is now time to move on and prepare a better future of education for all the children of the world.Rey A. Gomez. Teaching with a Multicultural Perspective. ERIC digest.Gomez explains that to teach with a multicultural perspective will win understanding and appreciation of ones own last, as well as others. He suggests that the use of this perspective in teaching could promote a sense of uniqueness and specialty to his own culture to the child and therefore making the child create a same sense of perspective when viewing others cultures.He also suggests that multicultural programs should not utterly focus on that the others cultures to the extent that a stereotype is created within the class. In his article, Morefield also reminds the parents of the children attending multicultural schools of the myths that usually lead to the stereotype behaviors of their children toward multiculturalism.Wilson, Keith. Multicultural fostering. EdChange.Wilson is an associate professor at the Pennsylvania State University. In his article, he gives a definition of Multicultural Education, and gives examples of the pros and cons of Multicultural Education. He cites some views from other writers to complement their views. He also gives a few suggestions on as to how a multicultural education program whitethorn succeed.Burnett, Gary. Varieties of Multicultural Education An Introduction. ERIC Digest 98.Burnnet compares and contrast some of the programs that represent the current multicultural education typologies. He explains in his article some of the current programs that are currently being used to aid in multicultural education for the benefit of those who would like to create their own policies and or programs for the advancement of multicultural education. He cites some articles concerning debates about the effectiveness of some of the programs to back up his explanations.Milk, Robert-Mercado, Carmen-Sapiens, Alexandria. Rethinking the Education of Teachers of Language Minority Children evolution Reflective Teachers for Changing Schools. NCBE Focus.The articles main idea is how to make the teachers more language minority students friendly. They wish to clarify and explain the roles of the teachers on the educational lives of the students. They cited several works of other people to further explain the impressiveness of the teachers role in the political, demographic, and programmatic sta tuses of the schools that teach language minority students. They give suggestive guidelines for the teachers to help them in teaching language minority students.Attinasi, John. Academic Achievement, Culture, and Literacy An Introduction. NCREL.He relates his own ideas and experiences to the audience to explain his, and others views about multicultural education. In this article, he introduces multiculturalism by relating it to his views of closure and processes and so states a few brief history of the evolution of multiculture. He then gives a few guidelines and discipline on how multiculturalism can imply changes on the way of teaching in a school with diversely cultured students.Gollnick, Donna M. Chinn, Philip C. Multicultural Education for Exceptional Children. ERIC Digest E498.Gollmick and Chinn turn out the importance of multicultural education on the growing population of the U.S. in their article. They also give importance to the purposes of multiculturalism in the edu cation world. They also idiom the importance of the teachers roles and their curriculums on the multicultural students. and then they give suggestion on as to how to create a non-biased and effective curriculum for teachers, or for schools, who handle multiculturally diverse classes. Their article is a good preview of how important is the need for improvement of multiculture education.Cohen, Cheryl. Teaching about pagan Diversity. ERIC Digest zero(prenominal) 32.Cohen explains the importance of Ethnic Diversity as part of the curriculum to be used for students. He also gives stress to the effective procedures to be used in teaching Ethnic Diversity. Basically, it is an informative article that emphasizes the importance of Ethnic Diversity in a curriculum for students. Its main audiences are teachers and the vast American children of different heathen backgrounds.Covert, Bob and Gorski, Paul. Defining Multicultural Education. EdChangeGorski and Covert give hints as to what does M ulticultural Education really mean. They show that there is almost no two classrooms that has the same definition for Multicultural Education. Then they give examples of aspects of multicultural education. They state the importance of the definition on the possible transformations it could cause to the society. They also stated a possible goal of multicultural education which is to affect social change of the world.ReferencesAttinasi, J. (1994). Academic Achievement, Culture, and Literacy An Introduction. Retrieved awful 8, 2007 from the NCREL database. Website http//www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/leadrshp/le0att.htmBurnnet, G. (1995). Varieties of Multicultural Education An Introduction. ERIC Digest 98. ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education New York NY. Retrieved August 8, 2007 from the ERIC digest database. ERIC Document Reproduction supporter no. ED372146. Website http//www.ericdigests.org/1995-1/multicultural.htmChinn, P. and Gollnick, D. (1991). Multicultural Educa tion for Exceptional Children. ERIC Digest E498. ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education New York NY. Retrieved August 8, 2007 from the ERIC digest database. ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED333620. Website http//www.ericdigests.org/pre-9220/exceptional.htmCohen, C. (1986). Teaching about Ethnic Diversity. ERIC Digest No. 32. ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education New York NY. Retrieved August 8, 2007 from the ERIC digest database. ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED273539. Website http//www.thememoryhole.org/edu/eric/ed273539.htmlCovert, B. and Gorski, P. Defining Multicultural Education. EdChange. Retrieved August 8, 2007, from EdChange database. Website http//www.edchange.org/multicultural/initial.htmlGomez, R. (1991). Teaching with a Multicultural Perspective. ERIC Digest. ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and earlier Childhood Education Urbana IL. Retrieved August 8, 2007 from the ERIC digest database. ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED339548. Website http//ww w.ericdigests.org/1992-5/perspective.htmHanley, M. S. (n.d.). The Scope of Multicultural Education. New Horizons for Learning. Retrieved August 8, 2007, from New Horizons for Learning. Website http//www.newhorizons.org/strategies/multicultural/hanley.htmMilk, R. Mercado, C. Sapiens, A. (summer 1992). Number 6. NCBE FOCUS Occasional Papers in bilingualist Education. Retrieved August 8, 2007 from NCBA database. Website http//www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/focus/focus6.htmMorefield, J. (n.d.). Recreating Schools For All Children. New Horizons for Learning. Retrieved August 8, 2007, from New Horizons for Learning. Website http//www.newhorizons.org/trans/morefield.htmWilson,K. (n.d.). Multicultural Education. EdChange. Retrieved August 8, 2007, from EdChange database. Website http//www.edchange.org/multicultural/ text file/keith.html