This article examines the role of race in the college classroom. Two types of college institutions in which the author has had personal teaching experience are examined. It is argued that educators should tailor a particular pedagogy on the basis of the unique contexts in which they teach. (Author)

Notes that these novels were used to facilitate preservice and inservice teachers' recognition of the value of pluralism and to raise consciousness about issues of social justice primarily in relation to class, race, and gender. Concludes that teacher educators need to be more deliberate, systematic, and challenging in their efforts to help…

Teachers' monologic scripts potentially stifle dialogue and reflect dominant cultural values; students' counterscripts are formed by those who do not conform to "appropriate" participation. A third space where scripts intersect creates potential for authentic interaction and a shift in what counts as knowledge. (SK)

Personal examples of the authors' experience of race and gender in career development are used as a springboard to a discussion of career socialization, external obstacles faced by women, mentoring, and the implications for adult education. (SK)

Suggests that the trend toward detracking and inclusion in schools is socio-politically motivated. Rebuts arguments that tracking is racist and damages self-esteem and identifies harmful effects of heterogeneous grouping. Concludes that tracking and ability grouping have a place in education. (SK)

Discusses the need for agencies which provide services to people with visual impairments to collect statistics about race and ethnicity to estimate prevalence of visual impairments, create accountability, and design appropriate programs. Current statistics on the racial and ethnic diversity of individuals with visual impairments are provided. (CR)

A telephone survey was conducted among rural adolescents (N=414) to determine what demographic and theoretical factors from control, strain (or opportunity), and social learning theories predict occurrence of sexual intercourse and sexual partners. Sample characteristics, frequency distribution (dependent variables), and statistical…

Summarizes recent theorists' explorations of "whiteness" and discusses what the author sees as the difficulties that can occur when scholars attempt to incorporate these analyses into classroom lectures and discussions. Offers tentative suggestions for alternative approaches that investigate whiteness while deconstructing race. (TB)

Addresses the perception that opposition, backlash, and debates about multicultural literature garner a great deal of attention and seem to threaten its continued existence. Investigates specific debates, dilemmas, and delights surrounding the effort to integrate multicultural literature into curriculums. Looks at definitions of racial and ethnic…

Examines the reasons for including diversity, specifically gender, race, and ethnicity, within content courses and discusses six primary challenges that tend to be associated with attempts to infuse diversity within psychology content courses. Provides recommendations addressing diversity in a process-oriented fashion that does not promote…

This article explores how a revitalized public life promises to be far more effective than conventional school reform in bringing more equitable education policy. Participatory social inquiry stands in contrasts to the limited and mostly technical focus of equity reforms that began with Great Society policies in the 1960s and 1970s and that…

After World War II, Chinese residents of Singapore demanded the establishment of local Chinese universities. The ruling regime, however, which was under the shadow of the neighboring Malay-dominated Malay Peninsula, was forced to suppress the development of such schools. In Hong Kong, the British needed to install a Chinese university to counter…

Data presented in a previously reported ethnographic research project indicated that an urban elementary school regularly subjects its students to dated curricular materials and supplies. As reported, this occurred even though the school had at its disposal updated and even state-of-the-art resources, such as computers, visual aids, curriculum and…

This investigation provides an update on the inclusion of fathers in child psychopathology research. Articles published from January 1992 to January 2005 that examined parental contributions to child psychological maladjustment were identified. Each article was coded for child age, parental race, how parent gender was analyzed, type of journal,…

This exploratory research examined 277 survey responses to assess the influence of race, gender, age, major and parental educational level on the financial knowledge of undergraduate students attending a predominantly Black institution. The overall level of financial literacy was only about 3 correct questions out of 10. Analysis of variance…