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Kayla Lewis – Multicultural Perspectives, 2024
Overwhelmingly, elementary social studies standards focus on Native Americans in past tense. If elementary teachers follow state curriculum for social studies, students are often not provided the opportunity to learn about Native people in the present. The purposes of this study were to (a) determine the number of current state elementary (K-5)…
Descriptors: State Standards, Social Studies, Units of Study, Elementary Education
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Rogers, Carrie; McLendon, Ashley – Multicultural Perspectives, 2015
Native youth have complex schooling experiences. To better understand Indigenous youths' experience in public schools and in order to inform schooling practices and teacher preparation for both Native and non-Native teachers we share this portrait of Shayla. Through this research, particularly in the use of portraiture to document…
Descriptors: American Indians, Educational Experience, Rural Areas, Middle School Students
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Stanton, Christine Rogers – Multicultural Perspectives, 2015
Although previous research has described analysis of history textbooks in terms of multicultural education, limited attention has been given to teacher only resources, such as the "wraparound features" of teachers' editions. The study highlighted in this article applies critical discourse analysis to explore the potential for teachers'…
Descriptors: United States History, Textbooks, American Indians, Land Settlement
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Wang, Hongyu – Multicultural Perspectives, 2008
Engaging emotions in multicultural education is an important but a relatively neglected issue in teacher education. This essay calls for pedagogical attention to the role of emotions and attempts to analyze how teaching autobiographies and films sheds light on the emotional dynamics of multicultural education. Two films, "The Color of Fear", and…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Autobiographies, Teacher Educators, Films
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Moore, Tami James; Clark, Barbara – Multicultural Perspectives, 2004
"Message senders" include anyone and anything that provide information to us that we can then use to shape our understanding of others, events, and our surroundings. Textbooks are very influential message senders in the formal kindergarten through 12th grade school systems in the United States. The realities of students reading these…
Descriptors: Textbooks, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Content Analysis
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Hawkins, Jeffrey – Multicultural Perspectives, 2005
Media coverage of the institution of gambling, particularly casino gaming, has been occurring since the mid-1980s and, depending upon your geographic region, certain Indian tribes have been linked with its monetary success. Educational materials, namely textbooks, have been caught up in this current trend, and the result is that a new stereotype…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Textbooks, American Indians, News Reporting