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ERIC Number: EJ679136
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
Multicultural Literacy Starts at Home: Supporting Parental Involvement in Multicultural Education.
Pattnaik, Jyotsna
Childhood Education, v80 n1 p18-24 Fall 2003
Focuses on ways to ensure sustained parental participation in the school's multicultural educational efforts. Includes suggestions for identifying parents' multicultural education needs, interests, and expertise; for supporting parents in fostering a multicultural home environment, extending children's multicultural literacy, participating in the school's multicultural curriculum, participating in the decision-making process, serving as advocates of multicultural education, and identifying multicultural resources; and for involving parents in multicultural program evaluation. (KB)
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs, Multicultural Education, Parent Attitudes, Parent Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Parent Student Relationship, Student Attitudes, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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