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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 346 811 HE 025 631 AUTHOR Adams, J. Q., Ed.; And Others TITLE Multicultural Education: Strategies for Implementation in Colleges and Universities. INSTITUTION Illinois Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities, Springfield.; Western Illinois Univ., Macomb. SPONS AGENCY Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. PUB DATE Jun 91 NOTE 165p. PUB TYPE Reports - Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Change Strategies; Curriculum; *Educational Change; Educational Planning; Educational Resources; *Educational Strategies; Higher Education; Institutional Environment; *Multicultural Education; Teacher Education ABSTRACT This book of 15 author-contributed chapters provides pragmatic illustrations of how to implement multicultural education in college and university courses of study, and presentsstrategies for both transforming curricula and the training of effective multicultural educators. Section I focuses on instructional strategies for schools that possess diverse student populations. Section II examines teacher preparation programs in effective interaction strategies for culturally diverse classrooms. The third section highlights key issues when establishing a climatefor change. Chapters are as follows: "A Review of the Multicultural Education Literature" (Patricia L. Fram.is); "Using Effective Teaching Strategies in the Multicultural Classroom" (Donald Reyes); "Teaching and Learning with Culturally Diverse Stuents: A TeacherPreparation Course at a Comprehensive Public University" (Mario Yepes-Baraya); "Teaching about Cultural Diversity: Challenge and Responseat a Community College" (Bansrajh Mattai); "Including the Unincluded in Mathematics" (Judith K. Olson and Melfried Olson); "Cooperative Learning in the Culturally Diverse Classroom" (Andrea T. Williams); "Combatting Racism in the Classroom" (James I. Macdonaldand Stanley M. Newman); "Maximizing the Use of Comprehensive Assessmentsin Assessing Racial and Culturally Diverse Undergraduates:Alternative Strategies and Approaches" (Stafford Hood); "Preparing Teachersto be Effective Multicultural Educators" (Barbara S. Penelton); "Native Americans: From Christopher Columbus to Curriculum Integration" (James Fenelon); "Understanding Social Interaction inthe Culturally Diverse Classroom" (J. Q. Adams); "Moving Beyond the Plantation: Collaboratively Transforming and Integrating the Curriculum" (Christina Brinkley et al.); "Noteson 'Faculty Development Programs in Support of Multicultural Education'" (Emily C. Wadsworth); "Leadership of the Governing Board and Central Administration: Providing the Policy and Budgetary Framework for Incorporating Multicultural Elements into College and University Curricula" (Carol Everly Floyd and Alfonzo Thurmon); and "Selected Multicultural Education Resources." Appendices include the executivesummary of a state (Illinois) report on multicultural education andsummaries of multicultural initiatives at Illinois institutions. (DB) lturrai Education: 'Strategies for Implementation in Colleges and Universities edited by: J. Q. Adams James F Niss Cynthia Suarez .o U.S. DEPARTMENT Of EDUCATION 4,) THIS Office ot Educational Resear-h Ondirnefemement PE RMISf.'ION TO REPRODUCE BY E0p< AT1ONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED CENTER (MC) Q This document haa wen reproduced ALL?. DIR received horn the parson or organization - originating it 0 Minor cnange$ nave been made tO improve WesternIllinois Univ reproduction quality Pointe 01view Or Comona stated ,n this dOCu- leant dO nOt necessarily teotelent official TO THL EDUC 41 inNAL HEsouRCE OE RI pOitrtion or policy INFORMATIONE NIVH it RICI I_lit'af: 14 4, , 1 -:. !: T; ft:!t'''-,;:. ; HECA GRANT COOPERATING INSTITUTIONS 1990-91 Illinois State University Dr. Thomas Wallace, President Loyola University Rev. Raymond C. Baumhart, President Northeastern Illinois University Dr. Gordon H. Lamb, President Northwestern University Dr. Arnold Weber, President Western Illinois University Dr. Ralph H. Wagoner, President MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: A RATIONALE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION Prepared with Higher Education Cooperation Act Funds Awarded by the Illinois State Board of Higher Education to Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities Acting on Behalf of Western Illinois University for a project entitled Expanding Cultural Diversity in the Curriculum and in Classroom Teaching June 1991 Copyright (.(;.:11991 by Western Illinois University Foundation Any part of this book may be reproduced providing the authors are properly cited. r- DEDICATION This book is dedicated to our children, Cristy, Jabari, James, John, Leia Lynne, Tino, and to all the children in the world. We hope that your generation will continue the challenge to share this earth as brothers and sisters. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors wish to thank the Illinois Board of Higher Education for funding this project through the Higher Education Cooperation Act. Without their generous financial support this book would not have been possible. We are indebted to the contributing authors who synthesized their knowledge and understanding of multicultural education into effective and practical strategies for the classroom. Special recognition and appreciation go to Nita Burg, Sue Mietus, Janice Welsch, and Linnea High for their able word processing, editorial, and proofreading assistance. JQA JFN CS August 1991 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Reginald Wilson Preface J. Q. Adams and Cynthia Suarez Contributors Chapter I. A Review of the Multicultural Education Literature Patricia L. Francis Section I: Instructional Strategies for Diverse Student Populations Chapter 2. Using Effective Teaching Strategies in the MulticulturalClassroom Donald Reyes Chapter 3. Teaching and Learning with Culturally Diverse Students: A Teacher Preparation Course at a Comprehensive PublicUniversity Mario Yepes-Baraya Chapter 4. Teaching about Cuhural Diversity: Challenge and Responseat a Community College Bans,* Mattai Chapter 5. Including the Unincluded in Mathematics Judith K. and Me lfried Olson Chapter 6. Cooperative Learning in the Cultundly DiverseClassroom Andrea T. Williams Chapter 7. Combatting Rackm in the Classroom James I. Macdonald and Stanley M. Newman Chapter 8. Maximizing the Use of Comprehensive Assessments inAssessing Racial and Culturally Diverse Undergraduates: Alternative Strategiesand Approaches Stafford Hood Section Curriculum Issues in Multicultural Education Chapter 9. Preparing Teachers to be Effective MulticulturalEducators Barbara S. Penelton Chapter 10. Native Americans: From Christopher Columbus toCurriculum Integration James Fenelon Section III: Creating the Climate for Change Chapter II. Understanding Social Interaction in the Culturally DivcrseClassroom J. Q. Adams Transforming and Integrating Chapter 12. Moving Beyond the Plantation: Collaboratively the Curriculum Christina Brinkley. Janet Morrison, and Kathryn B.Ward Chapter 13. Notes on "Faculty Development Programs inSupport, of Multicultural Education- Emily C. Wadsworth Chapter 14. Leadership of the Governing Board and CentralAdministration: Providing the Policy and Budgetary Framework for IncorporatingMulticuitural Elements into College and University Currieull Carol Everly Floyd and Alfonio Thurmon Chapter 15. Selected Multicultural Education Resources Tipawan Reed Appendices Appendix A. Planning and Status Determination CommitteeMembers Appendix B. Executive Summary from MulticulturalEducation: A Rationale for Development and Implementation. A Report Preparedby the Planning and Status Determination Committee and Delivered tothe Illinois Board of Higher Education. Appendix C. Summary of Multicultural CurriculumInitiatives at Illinois Institutions Appendix D. Summary of Multicultural InstructionalInitiatives at Illinois Institutions FOREWORD Reginald Wilson. Ph.D. Senior Scholar American Council on Education "The keynote of democracy (1S a way of life may he expressed..as the necessity for the participation of every niature being in the JOrmation of the values that regulate the living of men together...All those wlio are affected by social institutions must have a share in producing and managing tlwm." John Dewey I am very pleased to'write a forward to this volume on multicultural education that pragmatically addresses the issue so succinctly posed by John Dewey. Our society is becoming increasingly multicultural demographically; however, our educational institu- tions. particularly those of higher education. are belatedly and reluctantly coming to the realization that our academic curricula are not reflective of that increasing demographic diversity.1 hasten to say that this is not an argument for simply adding colorful examples of various ethnic literature, customs, and culture. As I have said elsewhere. "the inclusion of diverse voices in the educational dialogue is vital to the search for truth... that will bring our history, our social science, our philosophy, and our literature to higher levels of richness and complexity." The intent of the development of multicultural curricula is the serious business of transforming the educational process to more closely approximate the multidimensional nature of our actual lived experiences as a species. rather than the replacement of one narrow cultural panoply with another equally narrow one. Moreover, the intent of a multicultural curriculum is to help students develop values that will assist them to live in a multicultural world. For example. at Le Moyne College