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Multicultural education is a set of educational strategies developed to provide students with ... community control and revision of textbooks to reflect the country's ...
The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education, 2009; Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives, 2004; Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (2nd edition), co-editor with Cherry A. McGee Banks, 2004; Books by Banks have been translated into Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Arabic.
Culturally relevant teaching is instruction that takes into account students' cultural differences. Making education culturally relevant is thought to improve academic achievement, [1] but understandings of the construct have developed over time [2] Key characteristics and principles define the term, and research has allowed for the development and sharing of guidelines and associated teaching ...
Gay is a consultant for the Teaching Diverse Students initiative through Learning For Justice, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. [citation needed] In 1994, Gay was the first recipient of The G. Pritchy Smith Multicultural Educator Award given by the National Association for Multicultural Education.
The International Journal of Multicultural Education (IJME) is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by the Loeb School of Education at Eastern University (St. Davids, Pennsylvania, United States). The IJME was founded in 1999 as Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education. [1]
The Kanawha County Textbook War, also known as the Kanawha County Textbook Controversy, was a violent school control struggle in the 20th century United States. It led to the largest protests ever in the history of Kanawha County, West Virginia, the shooting of one bystander, and extended school closings. The controversy erupted in 1974 when ...
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching won the Philip C. Chinn book of the year award [23] and Teaching for Change won the National Association for Multicultural Education Organization of the Year in 2004. In 2005, Teaching for Change was invited by former board member and entrepreneur Andy Shallal to open a bookstore in Busboys ...
Donna Y. Ford is an American educator, anti-racist, advocate, author and academic.She is a distinguished professor of education and human ecology and a faculty affiliate with the center for Latin American studies in the college of arts and sciences, and the Kirwan Institute in the college of education and human ecology at Ohio State University.