Thursday, February 18, 2016

Studies in Multicultural Education Spring 2016

Students in my "Studies in Multicultural Education" course have been reading Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice. This text provides a robust and powerful presentation of multicultural education that is anti-racist and social justice-oriented. Recognizing that race is not the only social category which presents itself in classrooms, the students were charged with reflecting, researching, and then writing about other aspects or combinations of social identities they experience in their classrooms or have in interest in learning more about. The following comments to this post include some of the highlights they have discovered.