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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A few days ago, I went to my office to get one of my students a book of great interest. Further, · “individuals who know the world only from their own cultural perspectives are denied important parts of the human experience and are culturally and ethnically encapsulated” (p.1). In searching the shelves, I came across Dr. James A.

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Report Finds Diverse Characters in Schoolbooks Often One-Dimensional

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As debates over how students should learn about race heat up and K-12 schools ban more and more books, it’s an increasingly urgent concern. The next two largest groups were Black characters and non-human characters such as animals, each representing 16%. You see white characters in the fullness of humanity,” she said. “So,

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

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Topics and people that they want their children to learn about are not taught in the curriculum (e.g., content, books events, topics, issues). I have written extensively about cultureblind curriculum and its myriad of problems. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.

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A Clarion Call for Change: Four Black Scholars Reflect on the Critical Need for More Educators of Color

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She often played music by Bob Marley, and we read poetry books by Shel Silverstein (i.e., I responded to the challenge and read the book. In this same spirit, we interrogate measures, theories, and curriculum to expose “cultureblindness” and cultural assaultiveness. and Rosa Parks. A Light in the Attic, Falling Up ).

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Decolonizing the School Counseling Profession to Support Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, counselors can use bibliotherapy (use of books to address academic and mental health issues) to work with Mason and other students. Counselors must ensure that all books and readings are culturally relevant to students in the areas of race, gender, heritage, and community context. Dr. Erik M.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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Editors of top-tier journals couldn’t comprehend why she chose to focus on Black women instead of Black people generally, and if she wanted to talk about Black women and girls in the courses that she taught, she had to figure out how to slip the material into the pre-designed curriculum. The experience was isolating. They were hiring three.

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Are We There Yet? Revising and Questioning Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled. Research is clear regarding how race and racism impact us all in the United States and beyond. Racial diversity has to be valued.