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Class and Gender in Multicultural Australia, 2005.
This paper discusses Erving Goffman's "The Presentation of the Gendered Self in Everyday Life" and Pierre Bourdieu's "'Habitus' Social Class and Everyday Life" and relates them to class and gender in multicultural Australia.
2,905 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 86.95
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This paper explains that Goffman's "The Presentation of the Gendered Self in Everyday Life" sets up a model of human interaction, which takes most of its metaphors from the realm of theatrical performance. The author points out that, as a Muslim woman, taking into account Goffman's framework, the 'front' of her performance in everyday life is wearing the veil, which lie beneath significant connotation and hence presenting herself on stage by her appearance and manner. The paper relates that Bourdieu argues that physical capital (in the form of body shape, walk and posture) is socially produced through activities such as sport, food, and etiquette.
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"Goffman in his framework uses a metaphor (a drama) to explain how social meaning is attributed to a person in ordinary, everyday interaction. We see how the persona, on and off a stage and with various audiences, is manifested through performance and roles. Through the drama, actors give meaning to themselves, to others and their situation. Interactions, which are seen to be performances before observers, deliver impressions to others according to the actor's goals. Information is exchanged to confirm identity and the significance of behavior."
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Class, Class Cleavages and Mao, 2002.
This paper examines Mao's analysis of Chinese class structure.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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Two elemental texts on class by Mao are considered and compared to J B Starr's analysis of Mao's concepts of class. Additionally the actual class structure of contemporary China is also compared to Mao's analysis.
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Multicultural Education, 2002.
This paper describes in detail the education environment and programs for multicultural students in public schools.
2,325 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper discusses how multicultural students in public schools are taught. She explores teaching methods used in multicultural education. The author seeks to understand what it is like for students and teachers to learn and teach in a multicultural environment. She concludes that multicultural learning provides academic and social benefits to students. She explains the factors of race, gender and ethnicity in multicultural learning. Finally, she examines the new multicultural method of involving parent involvement in their child?s schoolwork.
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Teaching Methods
Project Reach
The Multicultural Heroes Project
Multicultural Reading and Thinking (MCRAT)
Multicultural Literacy Program (MLP)
Opinion of these Programs
Students and Teachers in a Multicultural Environment
Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Multicultural Environment
Parent Involvement in Schoolwork
Conclusion
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"In addition to these educational benefits, it is noted that these students have higher self-esteem because they understand the value and importance of their own cultures and in doing so they can appreciate other cultures. Students also find these types of interactive curriculum fun and exciting, this encourages school attendance. In addition, students in these programs have an increased desire to socialize with children of other races when they are outside of the classroom.
Multicultural education can be very challenging for teachers because most multicultural curriculums require days of training and hours in preparation just to teach a lesson. Teachers also have to make sure that students are learning the basic curriculum of the school. However, teachers who have implemented these various programs have found that there own perceptions about different ethnic groups had changed. These changes in their own perceptions have allowed them to teach more effectively to all their students. In turn, students are more comfortable with teachers and are more apt to ask questions, which encourage learning."
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Race, Gender, and Work, 2008.
This paper analyzes the book "Race, Gender and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States" by Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei.
1,630 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 53.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the book "Race, Gender and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States" by Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei. Specifically, it discusses why the analysis of women's work in terms of race, class, and history is essential to the study of contemporary work issues.
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"This liturgy is repeated throughout American history through Chicana women, Black women, European immigrant women, and Asian women. White men created the societal rules, and women had to conform to them. In the contemporary workplace, these male-dominated rules still largely govern hiring practices and jobs available to women. This actually began in the 19th century when it became more common for people to seek wage-work rather than providing for themselves on a farm or other family business. Many men began to work outside the home, leaving the tending of home, family, reproduction, and other responsibilities to the women at home, of course unpaid. Most of the companies hiring men (and some single women) were owned by white male capitalists, who hired a majority of men in their factories and offices. Women that could not afford servants took on more responsibilities, while the entire American culture began to revolve around home, hearth, and the women who maintained this domesticity."
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Instruction in Multicultural Classrooms, 2004.
A paper about improving instruction in multicultural classes.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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This paper describes a method for improving instruction in multicultural classes that uses the classroom learning environment. The paper discusses the effect of the classroom learning environment on student performance and the components of such an environment that should be taken into account.
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"With the growing diversity of the student population in the United States, almost all teachers are likely to be confronted with the challenge of at least one student who comes from a minority background during their career. In order to ensure that teachers are able to cater to the diverse needs of the students in multicultural classrooms, researchers have highlighted the importance of the classroom learning environment in students' overall performance. In addition to the organization of the physical classroom environment..."
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Multicultural Education, 2007.
An analysis of the ways that multicultural education has been integrated into the school curriculum in the US and how these techniques have worked.
2,288 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper argues that multicultural education has had significant positive effects on the educational system in the United States. The paper provides an overview of multicultural education. It then examines various ways that multicultural education has been integrated into various parts of the school curriculum and reflects on how these techniques have worked. The paper then examines case studies showing successful application of multicultural education and gives suggestions on how multicultural education can be further integrated towards a successful education for all of America's children.
Table of Contents:
Multicultural Education
Multiculturalism in the Classroom
Continuing Challenges
Conclusion
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"Multicultural education can take on a different level in the college setting, wherein the learning communities provide a safe space for interaction between different students. These interactions can give students chances to disagree and voice their diverse opinions, and give students chances to learn from one another in creative and meaningful ways. For example, a writing teacher reported great success in an exercise where students were asked to write and share regarding the origins of their names and the resulting perceptions that such names engendered. In an Art Lab class, students wrote and shared about their personal experiences with various art forms like music and dance. Such interactions helped the students connect with one another on both aesthetic and emotional levels (Yamane 2001)."
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Multicultural Curriculum, 2003.
A position paper on multicultural curriculum development.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper is a position paper on multicultural curriculum. The paper discusses what a multicultural curriculum is and why it is needed in today's multicultural classrooms. It looks at the division among those who support a multicultural curriculum and those who don't. The paper briefly discusses how to teach the multicultural curriculum.
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"According to Gollnick and Chinn multicultural education has the purpose of further developing a democratic society by providing and promoting a respect and understanding of diverse ethnic and cultural groups ..."
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Multicultural Education: James A. Banks, 2001.
A review of James A Banks' ideas on multicultural education.
1,484 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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Opponents of multicultural education today often have many misconceptions. This paper examines how James A. Banks addresses many of these concerns, mostly affecting teachers and others influencing education. It looks at how he states that many think that multicultural education is especially for the victimized minority groups and how he also focuses on the idea that multicultural education is opposed to western tradition. The paper also discusses how he deals with the concern that multicultural education will divide the nation and how he addresses concerns teachers have in employing a multicultural curriculum.
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"The second type of knowledge is popular knowledge. These are values and knowledge that are enforced by the mass media and popular culture. Banks borrows a term from Carlos Cortes in describing this, and names it the "societal curriculum" (2000, p. 113). This includes movies and television, which studies have proven to be very influential in childhood. The American Psychological Association recently studied the effect of television on children's behavior. The link between behavior and television occurs in the same ratio as smoking does to cancer. (Garbarino, 2001, p. 58) This alarming rate shows the immense influence that watching television has on students."
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What is Multicultural Education?, 2007.
The paper explores the challenge of defining multicultural education.
1,051 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The paper explains that there are many complex issues that have to be taken into account in order to attempt a definition of multicultural education. The paper points out that multicultural education intersects by necessity with many other controversial issues, such as integration as well as social structure and transformation. The paper highlights the opposing views on what is multicultural education and discusses foundation points that almost all educationists and role players agree on. The paper concludes that if educationists are united in the meaning of multicultural education, there is a better chance of overcoming the challenge of defining multicultural education.
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"Studies also show that educationists and teachers often differ in their views and definitions on this subject. "It is rare that any two classroom teachers or education scholars will have the same definition for multicultural education. As with any dialogue on education, individuals tend to mold concepts to fit their particular focus." (Multicultural Education) This view points out that due to its changing and transformational character, and the various factors and implications that it carries with it, there is no one easy and universally acceptable definition of the term multicultural education."
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Teacher Attitudes and Multicultural Education, 2007.
An analysis of the impact of teacher attitudes toward multicultural education on student achievement.
4,803 words (approx. 19.2 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 122.95
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This paper reviews an extensive amount of literature regarding the achievement of culturally diverse students and the impact on this achievement of the attitudes of teachers toward these students, or specifically, the expectations that teachers hold in relation to the achievement potential of these students. The paper further looks at how failure to properly educate and prepare teachers for the multicultural education classroom leaves too many unanswered questions in the instructional provision relating to attitudes based on myth or falsehoods, misconceptions or misrepresentations. Additionally, the paper contends that it is critical that teachers be effectively educated with regard to their attitude prior to their entry into the multicultural classroom.
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Objective
Multicultural Education Defined
Cultural Differences and the Construction of Meaning
Overview of Current State of Affairs
Identified Barriers to Student Achievement
Summary and Conclusion
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"The research conducted by Padilla and Lindholm has purported three: "major identifiable assumptions" relating to the education of ethnic minorities identified as follows: (1) The white middle-class American is the standard used for comparison of other groups to (typically this is the male); (2) Instruments used for assessment of differences are universally applicable "across groups, with perhaps only minimal adjustments for culturally diverse populations; and (3) Although a need exists for recognition of the sources of potential variance such as social class, educational attainment, gender, cultural orientation, and proficiency in English, these are nuisances that can later be discarded (1995, p. 97)." (McCue, nd) "
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Canada's Multicultural Policy, 2002.
An overview of the positive impact of Canada's multicultural policy.
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This paper will provide a positive analysis of Canada's multicultural policy. Some questions addressed are, why and how has Canada's multicultural policy? What are the effects of such a policy? The immigration policy will be examined to analyze the multicultural policy.
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Multicultural Los Angeles, 2008.
This paper examines multicultural crashes and mergers, depicted in the film "Crash" and literature about Los Angeles.
1,190 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper explains that a culture is more than just a race, a language or a country but rather, through crashes and mergers, it creates new ways of seeing the world. The author points out that in Los Angeles, which is a cosmopolitan, world-class city with no majority race, the multicultural issues are not social acceptance problems that are common in suburban and rural districts, but instead psychological challenges, particularly the all-important and pervasive issue of identity. The paper stresses that culture crash is best grappled with by those individuals directly going through the continuous turmoil that it invariably creates and who are in the best position to portray their own responses to the continuing evolution of their culture.
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"On the other hand, Karen Tei Yamashita's novel, "Tropic of Orange", deals less with personal issues of culture crash and merger than with the broader, even global, effects of mass culture merger and its attendant economic manifestations in policies such as NAFTA (which, as has been argued by many, has a tendency to erase cultural distinctions in favor of mass uniformity). Yamashita's novel does touch upon the matter of self-identity, in so far one of its central characters (Emi) is an Asian-American; but there is so much turmoil and turbulence going on around the characters that one can barely stop for the luxury of self-analysis."
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Multicultural Counseling, 2005.
This paper is an extensive narrative about multicultural counseling training and application as well as descriptive information about major minority groups.
6,605 words (approx. 26.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 151.95
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This paper explains that as a multicultural society, the United States is composed of many micro societies, which do not necessarily blend into a single macro society; therefore counselors working with minority cultures must understand each minority society and challenge themselves to be creative and dynamic in providing sensitive and effective counseling to these individuals. The author points out that multicultural counseling should encompass personalization as well as group identification to serve the population with well rounded and effective counseling. The paper relates that in addition to the typical ethnic categories such as African-American, American Indian or Haitians, other minority groups and cultures include sexual minorities, women, the elderly and the disabled.
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"Like African-Americans, American Indians and Alaskan Natives suffered injudicious and atrocities at the hands of White Imperial Europeans. In the writings of Matthiessen (1984), the author weaves a tragic story of many American Indians who not only lost land but also gaming grounds and spiritual traditions associated with certain locations or animals. Yet through it all, Matthiessen (1984) captures the sadness the American Indian has for the white man who is half-blind and could gain much so much from all traditional peoples. In an example of the disregard for Indian culture, the US government moved Navajo Indians into a region revered by the Hopi Indian. The Navajo, having no connection to the Black Mesa region and pressured to stem statistics of infant mortality and poverty of their people, began mining the area to create jobs and income. The side effects of this mining included deep changes in these Indians' regret for the destruction of the land and a new unattractive interest in money."
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Education, Multicultural Diversity and Nationalism, 2002.
A discussion on whether education in Canada provides for multicultural diversity and nationalism.
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This paper addresses the question of multicultural diversity and nationalism of education in Canada. In Canada, an especially in Toronto, there are many different races and ethnic groups. Each group has its own beliefs, values, traditions, and patterns of behavior. As a result, there is great multicultural diversity in Canada.
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A Review of Multicultural Issues in Deaf Education, 2008.
This paper gives an overview of multicultural issues relating to deaf education in the U.S., identifying relevant issues and citing practical implication of the current research.
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This paper provides a critical review of the peer-reviewed and scholarly literature to identify relevant multicultural issues involved in the education of deaf children in the United States today. A discussion of the practical implications for a deaf education classroom based on the critical review of the literature and application of the research is provided in the conclusion.
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Review and Analysis
Background and Overview
Deaf Education in a Multicultural Classroom
Steps to Improve Education in the Deaf Classroom
Conclusions and Implications for Classrooms
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"In recent years, as deaf adults began participating in and directing the policymaking deliberations concerning the education of deaf children, these longstanding concepts and erroneous assumptions concerning the needs of deaf students were transformed somewhat, but the process has taken longer and required more effort than anyone might have expected. For instance, in recent years, 'Descriptions of deaf children as disabled persons needing auditory and speech rehabilitation began to fade. In their place, descriptions of deaf people as an ethnolinguistic group arose, where the young need 'bilingual education' using ASL as the medium of instruction, not 'special education' using invented or artificial languages or mechanistic methods. This cultural view of deaf people, existing alongside recent realizations of the multicultural nature of contemporary American life, has given rise to a new deaf education pedagogy, termed bilingual-bicultural (or bi-bi) education' (Flood et al., 2005, p. 313). The introduction of these educational techniques has also introduced yet another misconception concerning the education of deaf children. The implications of these trends on education in an increasingly multicultural deaf classroom are discussed further below."
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