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Kean, Eli – Multicultural Perspectives, 2020
Queer is difficult to pin down conceptually; it is willfully disruptive, intentionally destabilizing everything from identity to knowledge to politics to power. The intent of this article is to illuminate some of the ways teacher educators are conceptually connecting queer to transgender identities and experiences in their classroom curriculum and…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Sexual Identity
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Gosselin, Colette; Meixner, Emily – Multicultural Perspectives, 2015
When preparing college-age teacher candidates to teach in diverse contexts, knowing how they reconcile knowledge, self-author, and negotiate social relationships can enhance pedagogy and inform program design. In this article, the authors use a developmental framework they created to examine how teacher candidates' visual metaphors about White…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Visual Aids
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Suthakaran, V.; Filsinger, Keri; White, Brittany – Multicultural Perspectives, 2013
In this article the authors specifically address the use of narratives in the form of analogies as an experiential learning activity. The use of analogies as an experiential learning tool in multicultural education can be helpful in a number of ways. Analogies provide an alternative tool for processing multicultural topics with students who have…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Experiential Learning, Logical Thinking, Learning Strategies
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Vecellio, Shawn – Multicultural Perspectives, 2012
The FAIR Education Act (SB 48) was signed into law in California in July of 2011, amending the Education Code by requiring representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons in the social sciences. In this article, the author uses James Banks' model of the Four Levels of Integration of Multicultural Content to suggest ways in which…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Social Sciences, Homosexuality, State Legislation
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Lobb, Pamela M. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2012
In this article the author examines changes in students' self-awareness of multicultural topics during a multicultural education course. The course is a three-credit elective course offered in the university's school of education but taken by students across disciplines at a large, public research university in a mid-Atlantic state. Course…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elective Courses, Cultural Awareness, Multicultural Education
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Fierros, Edward Garcia – Multicultural Perspectives, 2009
Preservice student teachers engaged in a collaborative research initiative to examine the memory of the 1954 "Brown v. Topeka Board of Education" decision that culminated in a public performance. Ethnographic data were translated into performance texts through students' performances that confronted issues of privilege, race, and institutional…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Multicultural Education, Educational Research, Alternative Assessment