Multicultural education is more commonly found within schools that are racially and ethnically diverse. However, within homogenous schools, multicultural education is extremely limited or nonexistent. The purpose of this study was to investigate students', teachers', and parents' perceptions of multicultural education in a monoracial and…

This Critical Discourse Analysis examined the classroom discourse of six secondary social studies teachers during lessons dedicated to the study of Africa and the Middle East. The study focused on the phenomenon of otherness and the ways in which teachers contribute to or challenge the depiction of various African and Middle Eastern populations as…

Ethnocentrism is a condition that influences the development of prejudice and stereotypes of one's own ethnic group (the ingroup) towards foreigners (the outgroup) based on a foreigner's ethnic group or background. When left unmonitored in a K-12 environment, ethnocentrism can perpetuate prejudice and stereotypes against certain students in a…