Most of the history education research that addresses controversial issues suggests that disputes arising in the history classroom are rooted in students' diverse identities that relate differently to history. Therefore, a history education that wants to ease tensions must try both to make these different identities and their relations to history…

Teachers' social identities are an integral part of their professional identities. The present study explores Asian American teachers' performances of racial/ethnic identities and pedagogical practices in the classroom. The author uses a performance framework to understand how Asian American teachers both reify and resist stereotypes through the…

This study examines and utilizes Critical Race Theory to understand how pedagogical training fails to train educators in recognizing and countering racism in standardized testing and General Equivalency Diploma (GED) preparatory courses. Black students continue to have the lowest pass rates in GED test performance based on a study of race and…

An educational debt exists for Black and Latinx students with and without IEPs. This debt extends to underrepresentation in curricula and overrepresentation in special education. Identity representation in English Language Arts curricula offers promise to counter this existing educational debt as well as overrepresentation. This qualitative study…

Today's hyper-partisan world makes civil discourse across differences seem almost impossible for many adults, let alone young people. U.S. public schools are tasked with educating our young people with the goal that they each can be productive members of society. High-school students participating in an intergroup dialogue on race as part of their…

It can be challenging to draw connections between mathematics content and elementary students' experiences in ways that makes sense for each and every learner. Through this paper, we highlight several strategies for being a culturally responsive teacher in elementary mathematics classrooms and beyond. We critically focus on classroom based…

When faced with unexpected and charged conversations about race, class, gender, and other social identities, faculty often seek a list a strategies for what to say or do. Yet numerous, sometimes contradictory, strategies for navigating these discussions already exist. This article explores the issue of how might faculty and/or the faculty…

Purpose: The demographic make-up of students in US public schools is becoming increasingly diverse, and a need exists to train teachers in multicultural competence. Despite this need, little research addresses multicultural competence training for in-service teachers. In this pilot study, we aimed to implement an intervention, known as a diversity…

Questions pertaining to racial and cultural identification are salient among social work educators in their role as teachers in the classroom. In the context of the 21st century, as an increasing number of people cannot be classified by race, an awareness of the complexities of cultural and racial identity is more important than ever. For social…

With the increasing need for multicultural competence, questions have emerged about the appropriate classroom strategies to cultivate growth in this area. These questions have been further complicated by a growing focus on self-awareness, which has increased the affective demands of and student resistance to the material. This article proposes a…

This article introduces the idea of Africentric schools to the Toronto School Board as a counter alternative to promote the idea of including the myriad identities of students in the learning process. The sociological and philosophical tenets of Africentric schooling are presented under the headings of: The Afrocentric Idea; Groundedness in the…

This article provides a framework of six elements of social justice curriculum design for elementary classrooms. The elements move from students learning self-love and knowledge about who they are and where they come from to learning respect for people different from themselves. Students explore social injustice, learn about social movements,…

This book explores what it means to be a culturally competent white teacher in racially diverse schools. Twenty-five years of a multi- cultural educator's experience is presented to show the changes and growth that must take place. Also presented is the educator's understanding of his own identity that allows him to reach out to diverse students.…

Identifies components of a course on multiculturalism in teacher education. The course proposes these stages of awareness: (1) ethnic identity exploration; (2) development of knowledge in language and literacy acquisition; (3) refinement of a repertoire for cultural ways of teaching and learning; and (4) selection of a teaching style. (SLD)

Describes how curriculum integration of race, class, and gender issues in professional education courses can be implemented and evaluated using the model of white racial identity formation of Janet Helms (1990). Experiences over three years at West Chester University (Pennsylvania) support the theory and the use of multiple teaching strategies.…