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JAMES BANKS | Faculty
James A. Banks delivered the 29th Faculty Lecture, "Democracy, Diversity and Social Justice: Education in a Global Age'"...
CME LECTURE | Audrey Osler
24th CME Symposium, "Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Minority Education in Britain: a Question of Civil Rights or Human Rights?" ...
Center for
Multicultural Education
Courses in Multicultural Education
Summer 2008 Course List Autumn 2008 Course List
Multiethnic Curriculum and Instruction
This course is designed primarily for preservice and in-service teachers who have little or no previous exposure to issues related to ethnicity and schooling. It is designed to help teachers better understand the school's role in the ethnic education of students and acquire the insights, understandings, and skills rieeded to design and implement curricular and instructional strategies that reflect ethnic diversity. Prerequisite teaching experience or permission of instructor. Go Back to Course Menu
Instructional Strategies for Minority Students
This course is designed to equip educators with appropriate skills in effective teaching of culturally and socio-economically different students. Emphasis is placed on understanding how these students differ from mainstream youth and the implications of these differences for instructional strategies in the classroom.
Go Back to Course MenuTeaching the Bilingual-Bicultural Student
This course focuses on the educational needs of bilingual students, including research findings, special programs, materials, and methodologies. Topics emphasized include cultural contributions of bilingual populations to American culture and historical, social, and linguistic factors affecting their K12 education
Go Back to Course MenuWorkshop in the Language Arts: Language and Culture in the Classroom
This course examines the education of culturally and linguistically diverse students. It will focus on the connection between language, culture and learning. Course topics include: dialect variation, language socialization, language and power, and sociocultural conceptions of learning.
Go Back to Course MenuESL Reading
This course is designed to explore and present ideas, strategies and materials that can be used by teachers who are helping non-native English speakers learn to read. Participants will examine issues and current research related to reading development, language/cultural factors related to reading, and reading strategies education.
Go Back to Course MenuMulticultural Literature in the Classroom
Students will develop literary bibliographies for their students and will develop methods and techniques for using the books in their classrooms. This course focuses on fiction, but non-fiction works are also examined. It is recommended that students take EDC&145g, Adult Authors of Color, prior to taking this course.
Go Back to Course MenuMethods in Teaching English as a Second Language
This course is designed to prepare preservice and in-service teachers to teach English as a second language and to meet the educational and linguistic needs of students who have little or no English language skills. The emphasis in the course is on a survey of first-and second-language acquisition research and its educational implications, as well as instructional strategies consistent with the audiolingual, cognitive and creative construction approaches to second-language learning. Diagnostic prescriptive strategies for classroom application will be included.
Go Back to Course MenuAdult Authors of Color: Developing Multicultural Perspectives
Novels by authors of color such as Gary Soto, Sandra Cisneros, Yoshika Uchida, Jade Snow Wong, Gloria Naylor, and Marita Golden form the basis for class discussion, literature circles, and response journals in this course. The use of videos, mapping experiences, and lectures supplement the reading and analysis of novels.
Go Back to Course MenuMaterials for Teaching Reading: Children's and Young Adult's Literature
This course provides an introduction to literature K-12 with an emphasis on fiction and nonfiction by authors of color. The purpose of the course is to examine trade books and their use in transforming existing curricula through the infusion of ethnic specific literature.
Go Back to Course MenuEducating Native American Youth
This course helps students to understand the North American Indian student from cultural, socioeconomic, and psychological points of view. It provides opportunities for the student to apply knowledge and skills gained in other courses to prepare programs and learning aids relevant to the educational situation of Native American children.
Go Back to Course MenuTeaching African American Students and Culture
This course consists of an intensive analysis and review of the research and literature, both theoretical and empirical, relevant to curriculum patterns and programs designed especially for African American inner-city students. Special attention is given to the Implications of the research reviewed for devising effecffve teaching strategies for low-income African American students.
Go Back to Course MenuMulti-Ethnic Studies: Methods, Content, and Materials
This course is designed to help preservice and in-service teachers identify content and materials, devise methods for implementing ethnic studies programs, and for incorporaffng ethnic content into regular K-12 social studies, language arts, and humanities curricula. Special attention is given to teaching about American Indian, Mexican-American, African American, Asian-American, Puerto Rican American, and European American ethnic groups. Prerequisite: admission to the teacher education program or teaching experience.
Go Back to Course MenuMethods and Techniques of Assessment and Placement of LEP Students
This course is designed to explore issues in testing and assessment of LEP students, to examine current research on these issues. and to enable participants to become familiar with tesffng instruments for diagnosis of language proficiency and language difficulties of LEP students for subsequent placement.
Go Back to Course MenuCurrent Issues in Second Language Acquisition
This course is designed to familiarize participants with major issues in second language acquisition including various methods and approaches of language instruction. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills as a classroom researcher and formulating classroom applications of research results.
Go Back to Course MenuSeminar in Bilingual Education: Organization and Structure
This course focuses on the structure and organization of bilingual programs, including the developmental and organizational factors affecting bilingual education. It enables graduate students to review the historical antecedents in bilingual education and to develop a personal philosophy about bilingual education.
Go Back to Course MenuSeminar in Bilingual Education: Instructional Foundations And Issues
This course is a study of the theoretical foundations and instructional implications of - - psychology and linguistics as they apply to bilingual education. It enables graduate students to explore the learning styles of bilingual children and to become familiar with issues in bilingual education.
Go Back to Course MenuSeminar in Bilingual Education: Instructional Strategies
This course is a study of instructional factors affecting bilingual education. Particular emphasis is given to research related to the variables involved in teaching in a bilingual environment. It helps graduate students to explore instructional methodologies and formats as they apply to bilingual education and to become familiar with the current issues in bilingual education.
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Seminar: Issues in American Indian/Alaskan Native Education
The current social and political issues as they relate to American Indian/Alaskan native education are considered in this course. The educational implicaffons of state and federal legislaffon, judicial decisions, and politically controversial issues are considered.
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Seminar in Language Arts
Students will study recent research in language structure with special attention to research pertaining to the language skills: auding, speech, and written composition. Course work includes group and individual analysis of language arts studies with attention to research design and measurement. The course includes a unit on second language acquisition. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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Current Issues in Literacy Education
Discussion of problems and issues of current interest and importance in language arts education.
Go Back to Course MenuSeminar on Instruction and Curriculum for Minority Youths
This course examines research related to curriculum and instruction for minority youth for the purpose of preparing teachers, administrators, and other educators working with students who differ from mainsLrearn students in value and motivational system-s, learning styles, and socialization practices. Prerequisite: EDPSY 536 or permission of instructor.
Go Back to Course MenuEducating Ethnic Minority Youths
This course consists of an intensive analysis and review of the research and curricul~grams related to the social, psychological, and political factors that influence the school experiences of students of color. Special attention is given to tnstructional and curricular programs for African American, American Indian, Mexican-American, Puerto Rican-American, and Asian-American students. Prerequisite: Graduate status or permission of the instructor.
Go Back to Course MenuSchool Reform and Multicultural Education
This course examines some of the key ideas and proposals for school reform that emerged during the 1980s and l990s, and how these might relate to the multicultural education imperative. This purpose will be fulfilled through selective reviews and analyses of selective readings on school reform and multicultural education.
Go Back to Course MenuRace, Gender, and Knowledge Construction: Curriculum Considerations
Using htstorical and contemporary perspectives, students will consider the ways in which knowledge related to race and gender has been and is constructed and the implications of the ways in which knowledge is constructed for curriculum reform and teaching. Prerequisite: Advanced graduate students who have taken at least one course in multicultural education. ethnic studies. and/or women's studies.
Go Back to Course MenuLearning Variables of Minority Children: Instructional Implications
This course provides students with teaching strategies and data regarding four variables (language/dialect, cognitive style, locus of control, and motivational systems) that affect learning among minority students.
Go Back to Course MenuSeminar in Measurement and Evaluation of Bilingual Programs
This seminar meets general program guidelines and requirement for the current Bilingua'i Fellowship Program in the College of Education. Issues, problems, and policies concerning student assessment and program evaluation in the context of bilingua'i education will be investigated. Students will read key literature about issues, problems, findings and implications of measurement and evaluation practices in bilingual education.
Go Back to Course MenuEducational Policy Serving Disenfranchised Groups
This seminar examines programs and policies aimed at ameliorating conditions that face disenfranchised groups in contemporary K- 12 schooling. Seminar members critically analyze the assumptions, design, and likely impact of these programs and policies on institutions and individua'is. This seminar was designed for advanced doctoral students; others admitted only with permission of instructor.
Go Back to Course MenuSpecial Topics in Organizational & Policy Analysis: Race, Ethnicity, & Educational Policy
Policy discussion involving issues of diversity in education often overlook an extensive history of social and political constructions of difference in American society and in education across the spectrum. There are few policy questions more momentous in educational policy today than how to comprehend and deal with social diversity. Over the years, amid complex social forces, educators and policy makers have proposed a wide range of solutions to deal with social diversity. This course undertakes the Myrdal thesis as a point of departure to examine policies aimed at schooling and social diversity.
Go Back to Course MenuSpecial Topics in Higher Education: Diversity
This course combines readings, lectures, and discussion pertaining to a significant topic of special and current interest to postsecondary educators. The focus is on racial and ethnic diversity in community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities as a challenge to the student experience, the design of the curriculum, the setting of institutional policies, and other facets of the functioning postsecondary institution.
Go Back to Course MenuIntroduction to Multicultural Education
This course is designed to enable students to master the concepts, theories, and strategies that constitute the major dimensions of multicultural education. The course will focus on racial and ethnic groups, social class, and gender. Multicultural education is conceptualized in this course as a field that consists of the five dimensions formulated by Banks: (1) content integration, (2) the knowledge construction process; (3) pre,ludice reduction, (4) an equity pedagogy, and (5) an empowering school culture and social structure. This course is for students in the teacher education program.
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