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Dogutas, Aysun – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2019
Children need attention, especially those who have no home, family, school or friends. Refugee children are compelled to leave all of their belongings and to begin a new life in a place they have no idea or knowledge about. Educational institutions, teachers and friends are important for children. Can refugee children find what they expect from…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Refugees, Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education
Bousalis, Rina – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2017
Most educators and students are unaware of the Name Day, an alternative to the birthday celebrated in many cultures. Rather than birthdays, individuals of these cultures celebrate a day devoted to the saint, mythological god, or historical figure after which they were named. If students, particularly of elementary years, are to be educated in a…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Activities, Folk Culture, Elementary School Students
Davis, Danné E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2017
In recent years, natal males' assertions of being girls born in the wrong body have been unwelcome in elementary scholastic contexts. Several reasons call for individuals who teach or plan to teach young children to know about boy-to-girl (B2G) performance counternarratives. First, there is increasing visibility of B2G lives among elementary…
Descriptors: Young Children, Sexual Identity, Elementary School Students, Social Theories
Long, Trisha Wies – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2017
Adolescents are often disengaged in the learning process, being more focused on social media and self-interest than classroom content. Full circling is a process that can be used to help students collaboratively engage in learning and actively reflect on historical events--especially those that are under reported in history books. In the present…
Descriptors: Activism, Childrens Literature, Cooperative Learning, History Instruction
Vasquez, Sarah – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2016
Parent involvement has been shown to be one of the keys to student educational success, their ability to perform at a high level and persevere. The latest government statistics reveal that 53 million Hispanics now reside in the United States and 75 % of this population speaks Spanish at home [Cooper, M. (2014). "Hispanics in America and in…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Fathers, Parent Participation, Ethnography
Koh, Myung-Sook; Shin, Sunwoo; Reeves, Kay C. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate attitudes and perspectives of Korean immigrant parents in rearing and educating their children in the United States. One hundred nineteen Korean parents from three cities in the United States were surveyed using the Korean Parent Questionnaire. The responses of the questionnaire were analyzed using…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Korean
Jeffries, Rhonda; Jeffries, Devair – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2014
This article explored the role of hair in Sylviane Diouf's "Bintou's Braids" and focused on the impact of hair as a cultural signifier on girls and the curriculum. The article examined the ability of this children's text to address female beauty standards and suggests the use of literary techniques, such as reader's theatre, to recognize…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, African American Students, Elementary School Students, Females
Husband, Terry – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2014
Much has been written concerning the challenges many teachers face in engaging African American males in reading practices. While much of this extant scholarship focuses on African American males at the pre-adolescent stage of development and beyond, little has been written regarding increasing reading engagement in African American boys in P-5…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Learner Engagement, African American Students, Elementary School Students
Hajisoteriou, Christina; Angelides, Panayiotis – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2012
In the context of Cyprus' accession to the European Union and a huge wave of immigration towards the country, Cypriot teachers are called upon to teach within constantly more diverse educational settings. In consideration of the increased attention paid to intercultural education within the Cypriot socio-political environment, teachers are called…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Research Projects
MacKay, Leslie D.; McIntosh, Kent – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2012
Low literacy is a challenge facing Indigenous communities across North America and is an identified barrier to school success. Early literacy intervention is an important target to reduce the discrepancies in literacy outcomes. The Moe the Mouse® Speech and Language Development Program (Gardner & Chesterman, 2006) is a cultural curriculum…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Literacy Education, Early Intervention, Culturally Relevant Education
Hayford, Samuel; Avoke, Selete – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2011
Students in Basic schools in Ghana manifest diverse learning needs, which require innovative approaches to enable them to succeed in learning activities. The paper is part of a larger study conducted in Ghana, which used a range of data collecting methods including questionnaires, interviews with teachers and focus groups of below average…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Achievement, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Bowman-Perrott, Lisa; Lewis, Chance W. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2008
The achievement gap between African American students and their Caucasian peers has been of concern for quite some time in the field of education (Orfield, Losen, Wald, & Swanson, 2004). As a result, this article examined high stakes reading test scores for 4,135 African American students in grades 3 through 10 in a Midwestern school district.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Data Analysis, Student Records, African American Students
Wang, Chuang – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2007
Through a single case study and from the interpretive paradigm, the author described a first-grade student?s self-efficacy beliefs about learning English in various English language learning tasks and across school-based and home-based contexts. The student came from China and had been living in a Chinese community in the United States for one…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes
Bakken, Jeffrey P.; Whedon, Craig K.; Fletcher, Reginald – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2006
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of urban students regarding their teachers who were of different races/ethnicities. The participants in this study were twelve students (African-American, Caucasian, and Bi-Racial) in an urban elementary school. The twelve students were in a special education self-contained classroom and…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Teacher Collaboration, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Faculty)