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Disrupting Deficit Dialogues with Literature
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Connelly, Jeanne; Hayden, Emily; Tuttle Prince, Angela – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to connect disability studies to multicultural education. This paper advances equity discussions and positions educators as interrupters of deficit dialogues that exclude students with social/emotional/behavioural (SEB) differences, disrupting the ableism that is present in schools. Design/methodology/approach: The authors…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Multicultural Education, Social Bias, Equal Education
Light and Shade of Multicultural Education in South Korea: Analysis through Bourdieu's Concept of Capital
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Lee, Soo Jung; Jahng, Kyung Eun; Kim, Koeun – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to attend to the issues that remain veiled and excluded in the name of multiculture. Design/methodology/approach: This paper problematizes South Korean multicultural education policies through Bourdieu's concept of capital as a theoretical frame. Findings: First, the paper discusses that material wealth is unequally…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Social Capital, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
Debunking the "Language Gap"
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Johnson, Eric J. – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to outline the misguided underpinnings of the "word gap" concept promoted by Hart and Risley (1995). This concept posits that a "30 million word gap" between children of poverty and those from affluent households accounts for widespread academic disparities. Based on this premise, there has been a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Poverty, Vocabulary Skills, Social Differences