Outlines a planned program of multicultural education that begins in the primary grades and continues throughout secondary schools. (Author/MLF)

An ethnography is a richly textured description of community life that allows us to understand others on their own terms. The ethnographic work of Heath, MacLeod, Taylor, and others can help teachers uncover their buried assumptions and see faces instead of abstractions and statistics. This article summarizes six ethnographic works revealing…

Taunts from her Hispanic students spurred a Japanese-American second-grade teacher to develop a multicultural unit that helped children appreciate the culture they had previously jeered. Her goal is to help students develop cross-cultural acceptance and strategies to work through their own prejudices and to maintain their own dignity when they…

No one teaching strategy consistently engages all learners. Motivation is inseparable from culture. What elicits frustration, joy, or determination may differ across cultures, because cultures vary in defining novelty, hazard, opportunity, and gratification. A culturally responsive teaching model requires four motivational conditions: establishing…

By studying Mexican-American families, the author learned that Latinos have a comprehensive, inclusive conception of educating children. "Bien Educado" connotes a sense of being well-bred, mannerly, clean, respectful, responsible, loved, and loving. Parental involvement in preschool may increase Latino parents' confidence in actively…

The Bicentennial celebration can help us to reevaluate our responses to cultural diversity and to build on these valuable strengths for a more equitable future. (MM)

Praises the rare teacher who respected his native culture when growing up. Deplores negative attitudes of some future second-language teachers toward Mexican-American culture. Colleges of education can nurture diversity by creating a multicultural environment. Courses should be rigorous and require students to incorporate multicultural concepts…

Oregon's statewide social-studies assessment (a randomized, multiple-choice maze) is part of a "democratic" national standards movement that threatens good teaching and multicultural studies. If multiculturalism's key goal is accounting for historical influences on current social realities, then Oregon's standards and tests earn a…