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Obiakor, Gina C.; Obiakor, Kristen E.; Obiakor, Festus E.; Jones, Kevin – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2023
Learners with special needs experience myriad problems in general and special education. These problems range from minor academic, social, emotional, and behavioral problems to major disenfranchisements, disadvantages, and disillusionments. In addition, these problems can be very intense. As a result, they call for innovative and creative…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Churches, Christianity, Religious Factors
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2022
Africans coming to the United States of America to go to school traditionally have the ultimate goal of getting the best education and going back to their respective countries. That was my goal when I left Nigeria many decades ago! However, considering the socio-economic and political upheavals in African nations, one is forced to rethink the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2022
What Black learners hear from their general and special education professionals affect how they communicate and interact in classrooms and other learning situations and environments. Most students, no matter how young, are very perceptive--they can tell if the teacher or the learning environment is welcoming or unwelcoming. When the environment is…
Descriptors: African American Students, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Special Education Teachers, Educational Environment
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2021
The search for "quality" has been the driving force behind general and special education programs; and rightly so! This search has led to incessant demands for scientifically proven and evidence-based methods, both in research and practice. However, this search has frequently ignored "fluffy" words and actions that make up the…
Descriptors: Special Education, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Educational Quality, Multicultural Education
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2021
The United States and our world have been witnessing tremendous changes at socio-economic, political, and educational levels. Some of these changes have been fantastic and some have been depressing. For example, many of our fellow citizens are still enduring discriminations, victimizations, prejudices, and inaccurate expectations because of their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Special Education Teachers, World Views, Regular and Special Education Relationship
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2021
Hate has always been a part of our lives and world. We have rationalized about it and pretended that it is a personality difference that is not very harmful and hurtful. However, hate continues to be devastating and visible in the forms of discrimination, racism, xenophobia, linguistic superiority, religious bigotry, Messiah Complex, White…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Schools of Education, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language)
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2021
Black people all over the world have historically endured slavery, colonialism, racism, prejudice, and discriminatory actions; and they continue to be disenfranchised, disadvantaged, disillusioned, and demeaned by institutions and systems. Of late, Black people in the United States, especially Black males have been encountering blatant police…
Descriptors: African Americans, Blacks, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination
Obiakor, Gina C.; Obiakor, Kristen E.; Obiakor, Charles C.; Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2020
Science and mathematics have international and global origins and impacts that are intertwined with national origin, race, culture, religion, language, and gender, to mention a few. This means that scientific and mathematical knowledge goes beyond myopic narrow confines. Put another way, teaching science and mathematics without explicating their…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Young Children, Cultural Influences
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2019
One of the critical issues in education today is how to help all students to maximize their fullest potential. Achieving this goal seems to be difficult for many people who come from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. At all levels, they endure direct and indirect disenfranchisements, disadvantages, and disillusionments,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Asian Americans, Self Concept, College Faculty
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2018
The United States of America is currently experiencing some socio-political problems. These problems stem from myriad mythologies and assumptions that have created labels, categories, stereotypes, and generalizations. While they are not uncommon in many communities and societies all over the world, in the United States, they have exposed intense…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Stranger Reactions, Stereotypes, Generalization
Banks, Tachelle; Sapp, Marty; Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2014
Not all children and youth will respond the same way to scripted interventions. Children and youth require intervention strategies that are designed to meet their wide-ranging needs in order to be successful during and after school years. Yet, educators and counselors apply behavior strategies to promote prosocial behavior without exploring…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Student Diversity, Competency Based Education, Emotional Development
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2011
The current trend in higher education appears to be a concerted effort to downplay racism as a fundamental educational problem. For some strange reason, educators appear willing to discuss all kinds of diversity and ignore racism even as it continues to matter in our daily interactions (Williams, 2011). Strangely, education professionals are quick…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Higher Education, Racial Discrimination, Racial Bias
Obiakor, Festus E.; Harris, Mateba K.; Offor, MaxMary T.; Beachum, Floyd D. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2010
Problems facing African American students with special needs are numerous and complex. Although processes and procedures are in place to properly serve these students, far too many become ensnared in webs of bureaucracy and benign neglect. This article examines African American students? experiences with special education in Milwaukee Public…
Descriptors: African American Students, Special Education, Disproportionate Representation, Student Experience
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2010
Teacher education programs (TEPs) are consistently challenged to respond to individual and collective growth. In addition, current demographic changes have forced these programs to address issues of quality and equity in measurable ways. As an African immigrant to the United States, I have been fortunate to be involved in these programs,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Quality, Blacks, Immigrants
Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2009
The changing demographics in public schools have called for strategic changes in how students in general and special education are educated. While this trend is increasingly becoming apparent, many educators and leaders are still entrenched in traditional methods of learning and teaching. As a result, culturally diverse exceptional students…
Descriptors: Demography, Public Education, Gifted, Student Diversity
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