Agenda for Week Five

Week Five | Multicultural & Multilingual Education

Monday | 25 September

Noteworthy: 

• Please send Current Affairs in Education article to me by 12:00pm day of class!
• Discussion of PresentPosts 3

Reading: Spring, Joel (2016) American Education. 7 Multicultural and Multilingual Education (174-210)

Discussion:

• PresentPosts 3 (from last week)
• Current Affairs
• Path to the JCU library research databases: Library main page –> Library research page –> Articles, Data and Databases –> Research databases
• Racism
  • Prejudice + Power
  • Institutional Racism: Segregation, Real Estate, School Funding
• Global Migration Today
• Dominated Populations and Americans by Choice
• Dominated Cultures and Education — p. 182-184
• Deculturalization
  • Puerto Ricans — 1898, the Spanish -American War
  • Native Americans
• White Privilege
  • Beyond Guilt
  • Solidarity Activism
  • Leveraging Privilege
• Multicultural Education Groups

1. Critical Pedagogy p. 185 +
2. Teaching Anti-Bias and Tolerance p. 188+
3. Educating for Economic Power p. 193+
4. Ethnocentric Education p. 195+

---

Wednesday |27 September

Noteworthy:  Reading for Monday 2 October: Spring, Joel (2016) American Education. 6 Student Diversity (144-173)

Discussions/Presentations:

• Current Affairs
• Multicultural Education Group Discussions/Presentations
  • Discuss your group’s approach to multicultural education
  • Find and discuss an online source associated with one of the authors mentioned by Spring
  • Present an overview of your group’s approach

1. Critical Pedagogy p. 185 +
2. Teaching Anti-Bias and Tolerance p. 188+
3. Educating for Economic Power p. 193+
4. Ethnocentric Education p. 195+

• Multicultural Education Paired Discussions | Follow the guidelines as described in Present BlogPost5

Assignment Due:  Friday | 29 September Present BlogPost5

Assignment Due:  Monday | 2 October Service Essay Annotated Bibliography

---