Research Articles:
Beyond Good Intentions: Selecting Multicultural Literature
This article originally appeared in the September-October 1997 Children's Advocate newsmagazine, published by Action Alliance for Children.
details Center for Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults
This is a graduate program from the University of San Francisco. It includes some interesting links to dissertations about a range of topics associated with multicultural literature.
details Closing the Divide: Technology use in TRIO Upward Bound Projects
This report examines the extent to which Upward Bound classrooms have incorporated technology into their instructional offerings and administrative framework.
details Defining Multicultural Education
Because "Multicultural Education" has come to have many different meanings and conceptualizations as it evolves. It is important to provide insight into a number of different definitions, goals, assumptions and principles of multicultural education as described by various people in the field.
details Designing Multicultural Lesson Plans by Hui-Ju Huang
This research study looked at multicultural lesson plans developed by pre-service teachers and evaluated the content, educational goals, and teaching approaches used.
details Disconnected, Disadvantaged and Disenfranchised: Explorations in the Digital Divide
A recent study shows 47% of U.S. households do not have Internet access at home.
details Education in Black & White: How Kids Learn Racism—and How Schools Can Help Them Unlearn It
An article by Jo Anna Natale from the American School Board Journal discusses racism among schoolchildren and the role that educators play.
details Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression
We describe a new way of classifying uses of educational technologies, based on a four-part division suggested years ago by John Dewey: inquiry, communication, construction, and expression. This taxonomy is compared to previous taxonomies of educational technologies, and is found to cover a wider range of uses, including many of the cutting-edge uses of educational technologies.
details Hispanic-American Students and Learning Style
The articles deal with cultural values of Hispanic Americans, and language system research and implication for counseling and teaching.
details Learning-Theories.com
The web site features relevant and important theories for psychology, cognitive science, education, HCI, and instructional design.
details Multicultural Children's Literature in the Elementary Classroom. ERIC Digest
This article includes three resources, importance of multicultural childre's literature and guidelins for selecting multicultural children's literature and resources for material selection.
details Multicultural Education by Keith Wilson
This article provides a definition for multicultural education, discusses its pros and cons, and gives suggestions for how “real” multicultural education should look in the classroom.
details Multicultural Report
The purpose of this site is to prepare both undergraduate and graduate students to understand, support and teach children of other traditions and cultures, and to prepare them to help all children learn respect for the traditions and cultures of others.
details Sloan Work and Family Research Network
The Sloan Work and Family Research Network is designed to support research and teaching, promote best practices at the workplace, and inform state policy on issues that affect the lives of working families and the places where they work.
details Study: Minority students equally driven
Black and Hispanic students have as much desire to succeed in school as their white and Asian peers, says a study that challenges the idea that some minority groups are less focused on school.
details The Identity Development of Multiracial Youth
The articles discuss multiracial population identity formation in multiracial children, classification documentation, and advantages and disadvantages of multiracial backgrounds.
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