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Mahiri, Jabari – Teachers College Press, 2017
This book answers: (1) how do socially constructed concepts of race dominate and limit understandings and practices of multicultural education; and (2) since race is socially constructed, how do we deconstruct it? The author argues that multicultural education needs to move beyond racial categories defined and sustained by the ideological, social,…
Descriptors: Race, Multicultural Education, Self Concept, Ethnography
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Golovanova, Inna I.; Lopareva, Tatyana A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The urgency of the examined issue is stipulated by inconsistency between social services commissioning to speak several foreign languages and inadequate implementation of these services in educational establishments of the country. The aim of the article is to justify the necessity to reconsider models of mastering the language and to alter…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Odell, Patricia; Korgen, Kathleen; Wang, Gabe – Innovative Higher Education, 2005
This study examined the effectiveness of curriculum-focused diversity initiatives on a college campus by determining the relationships between GPA, social class, year in school, residential status, racial diversity courses taken, and cross-racial friendships on the level of social distance between Whites-Blacks, Whites-Hispanics, Hispanics-Whites,…
Descriptors: Social Class, Grade Point Average, Friendship, Racial Differences