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Hill-Jackson, Valerie – Multicultural Perspectives, 2007
Pedagogical progress in the field of multicultural education moves at a snail's pace due to pre-service teachers' level of acceptance of multiculturalism and its tenets. Teacher candidates and seasoned teachers are simply unconscious and apathetic about matters of diversity. Pre-service teachers, primarily White and middle class, are mandated to…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Multicultural Education, Action Research, Racial Identification
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Saracho, Olivia N.; Martinez-Hancock, Frances – Multicultural Perspectives, 2007
This paper provides an introduction to the Mexican-American culture, describing (1) cultural diversity and linguistic policies in the United States; (2) cultural and linguistic studies that have examined the backgrounds of Mexican-American individuals; (3) the characteristics of this population; (4) issues on discrimination and human relations;…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Mexican Americans, Cultural Pluralism, Unskilled Workers
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Parks, Marguerite W. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2006
"I am from a very small town in which almost the entire population is made up of White middle class society." This statement is a reoccurring theme of final Multicultural Education (MCE) papers by preservice teachers at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (UW Oshkosh). Although this sounds like an innocuous statement, over the past 12…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle Class, Multicultural Education, Whites