Empowerment through Multicultural Education by Vanessa Pablo https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e A TEL 505 Project en-us 2016-11-10 10:57:04 UTC 2025-10-24 20:33:30 UTC hello@padlet.com THE PROBLEM (Your Task) vspablo https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136676633 Multicultural education is typically addressed in Social Studies and Language Arts classrooms. How can secondary teachers in ALL subjects empower students through multicultural education ?]]> 2016-11-10 11:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136676633 CRITICAL PEDAGOGY vspablo https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136678868 Leaders
James Banks
Sonia Nieto
Christine Sleeter
Carl Grant

Leaders are concerned with empowering oppressed people by integrating the history and culture of dominated groups into public school curricula and textbooks.

#Goals
  • Reduce prejudice
  • Eliminate Sexism
  • Equalize Educational Opportunities
Example
Sonia Nieto's Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context for Multicultural Education
]]> 2016-11-10 11:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136678868 RACISM vspablo https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136680669 Racism 
  • prejudice + power
  • oppression of one racial group toward another

Economic Exploitation 

Who is in power?
Guilt of whites as the oppressor can lead to avoidance and continued oppression. We need 
white allies. How can we achieve this? How does this contribute to solving the problem?

]]> 2016-11-10 11:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136680669 TEACHING ANTI-BIAS & TOLERANCE CURRICULA vspablo https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136680721 Challenge - School becoming more segregated

Resources:
Beverly Daniel Tatum's Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Teaching Tolerance is project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Their curriculum - Perspectives for a Diverse America: A K-12 Literacy Based Anti-Bias Curriculum
  • Identity
  • Diversity
  • Justice
  • Action

http://perspectives.tolerance.org//
]]> 2016-11-10 11:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136680721 SEXISM vspablo https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136687408 Resource: Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls


]]> 2016-11-10 12:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136687408 Science Resources https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136917836 http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2010/12/31/inspired-by-insects-10-creepy-crawly-biomimetic-designs/

http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201403/Outreach/

http://nsfnoyce.org/files/2013/06/2.13-Science_and_Socia_-Justice.pdf


]]> 2016-11-11 01:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136917836 Social Studies Resources https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136917942 http://www.mission-us.org/
https://www.icivics.org/
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/]]> 2016-11-11 01:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136917942 Solutions Activity vspablo https://padlet.com/vspablo/pmla2kwc7r6e/wish/136918055 Problem
-ELA and SS subjects are relevant and easy, but can sometimes
-Extra work for teachers. What's the trade-off?

Criteria
-empowering students
-incorporate student interests (TAP indicator)
-build student-teacher relationship

Solutions
-Realistically, it's on the individual teacher.
-Professional development
-Teacher resources to supplement teaching - user-friendly, easy

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