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Green, Keisha L.; Nygreen, Kysa; Valdiviezo, Laura A.; Arce, Joel Ariel – Multicultural Perspectives, 2020
In this article, we discuss a partnership with a district-wide Ethnic Studies (ES) program, the Ethnic Studies Professional Development (ESPD) project, through which we designed and led a year-long teacher professional development series for middle and high school ES teachers in one school district. We describe the context of the ESPD project, our…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Ethnic Studies, Program Descriptions, Middle School Teachers
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Cabrera, Nolan L.; Chang, Robert S. – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2019
In 2011, the state of Arizona banned the highly successful Tucson Unified School District Mexican American Studies program through the law ARS ยง 15-112. This article is a Critical Race Theory "counternarrative" regarding the role of statistics in the constitutional challenge to this state law. Through firsthand accounts of this process,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Court Litigation, Mexican Americans, Ethnic Studies
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Carjuzaa, Jioanna; Baldwin, Anna E; Munson, Michael – Multicultural Perspectives, 2015
The espoused foundation of U.S. society, "E pluribus unum" (out of many, one), is based on the belief that this nation should simultaneously support pluralism and promote unity. The road to making this ideal a reality, however, has not always been smooth. The ever-widening achievement gap highlights how this discordance plays out in our…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Studies, Ethnic Studies, State Action
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Andersen, Clair – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2012
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in Australian schools continue to have poor education and health outcomes, and the introduction of a new national curriculum may assist in redressing this situation. This curriculum emphasises recommendations which have been circulating in the sector over many years, to require teacher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, National Curriculum, Preservice Teacher Education
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Mackinlay, Elizabeth – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2012
In this article, I take a creative and autoethnographic approach to reflect upon processes of decolonisation in Indigenous Australian studies classrooms. Positioning myself as a non-Indigenous educator, I take the reader on a journey through my search for pedagogy which makes space for the colonial, difficult and messy politics of race, whiteness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Reflection, Ethnography
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Mackinlay, Elizabeth; Barney, Katelyn – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2012
This article explores the shift in terminology that occurred in a 2-year Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)-funded curriculum renewal project that set out to broadly explore current teaching and learning practice in Indigenous Australian studies (www.teaching4change.edu.au). While we started with the term "Problem-Based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Program Descriptions, Teaching Methods
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Kutay, Cat; Mooney, Janet; Riley, Lynette; Howard-Wagner, Deirdre – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2012
This article explores a project at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney, funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) in 2011, titled "Indigenous On-Line Cultural Teaching and Sharing". One of the team members (Kutay) was also a project team member on the ALTC-funded project "Exploring PBL in Indigenous Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Education
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2009
This article describes the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston which complements students' career tracks and engages them in the surrounding Asian American community. For many educators, large numbers of graduates are not only a bragging right, but a goal. However, those involved in the Asian American…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Asian Studies, Asian American Students, Intellectual Disciplines
Boulard, Garry – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
As a student in the Chicana/o studies program at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Jesse S. Arrieta decided that her classroom instruction about the culture and history of people of Mexican origin wasn't enough. Arrieta, 27, who graduated from UTEP in 2002 before earning a master's in American history from the University of California,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, United States History, Transportation, Females