Multicultural Education Resources
African Americans in the Sciences This site provides students and teachers with a brief annotated bibliography of works by, or about, African Americans who have made major advances in science and technology over time. Also includes some important stats and other links. Their countries of origin include: Argentina, Cuba, Spain, United States and Venezuela.
Famous Hispanic Inventors This site is put out by ABOUT.com, but lists some great Hispanic or Latin people from the Latin world and what they did.
Women Scientists This site is an off-shoot of the first site on this list. It lists many, many women you have contributed to the world of science over the years.
African Americans in Science, Math, and Technology Site includes multiple links to help educate students about the achievements made by African Americans in the fields of science, math, and technology. Also gives students the opportunity to learn about various programs that can assist African Americans in achieving their educational goals.
Black and Brown Sugar
Site discusses diabetes in minority populations. Provides information on how
diagnosis causes a lifestyle change; how doctors treat diabetes; also gives
a chance to ask the expert about diabetes.
Black Inventor's Museum Site offers a large host of people from many disciplines and throughout history, with a great search engine.
Cultural Diversity: Eating in America Site discusses various nutritional aspects of the American diet (primarily the diets of African Americans). Explains how personal preferences, cultural values, and how we have been taught to eat all affect the ways that we do eat.
Association of Multicultural Science Education (AMSE)
Associated with NSTA.
Contact: Olivia Swinton, 3728 Carver School Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27105; Dr.
Mary M. Atwarer (matwater@coe.uga); or Dr. Cherry Brewton (cbrewton@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu)\
Educators for Social Responsibility
(ESR). Provides a listing of upcoming events in multicultural education.
Listing of resources for reference.
National Association for Multicultural
Education (NAME). Primary national organization that holds annual meetings
and can provide latest resources and ideas.
Teaching
Tolerance is produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center and
provides free videos, curriculum, and posters upon request on school letterhead.
Rethinking Schools offers alternative views to current structure of school institutions and standardized testing.
The Peace Corps has developed lots of great curriculum on global thinking. Go to site and click on Educators.
The Black Web Portal is one of the few web portals fully operated by African-Americans.
Multicultural Pavilion is a site designed by Dr. Paul Gorski to provide great resources for educators to explore and discuss multicultural education.
The Multicultural
Supersite was also designed by Dr. Gorski and provides more curriculum
and resources
Transformations Book Store A multicultural site for books and other resources related to equity, peace, social justice, and progressive education.
Urban School Issues arediscussed here, enabling the reader to get a feel of what is happening in cities across the U.S.
Banks, J.A. and C.A. Banks. 2001. Multicutltural Education: Issues and Perspectives. 4th Edition. New York: John Wiley & sons, Inc.
Barba, R.H. 1998. Science in the Multicultural Classroom: A Guide to Teaching and Learning. Massachesttes: Allyn & Bacon.
Bardwell, G. et al. 2001. Teens Take a Healthy Interest in their Communities. ENC Focus. Vol. 8 (1): 40-42.
Dooley, E., G. Bardwell, C. Bethea. 2000. Mentors in Medicine. The Science Teacher. Vol.76 (3): 36-39.
Grant, C.A., and C.E. Sleeter. 1998. Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender, and Disability. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill.
Howard, G.R. 1999. We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.
Loewen, J.W. 1995. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: Touchstone.
Mazell, E. 1998. "And don't call me a racist!": A treasury of quotes on the past, present, and future of the color line in America. Massachusetts: Argonaut Press.
Minstrell, J., and E.H. van Zee, Editors. 2000. Inquiring into Inquiry Learning and Teaching in Science. Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
McKendall, S., P. Simoyi, A. Chester, & J. Rye. 2000. The Health Sciences and Technology Academy: Utilizing pre-college enrichment programming to dismantle post-secondary education barriers for under-served youth. Academic Medicine, 75 (October Supplement), S121-S123.
National Research Council. 1996. National Science Education Standards. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Rasool, J.A. and A.C. Curtis. 2000. Multicultural Education in Middle and Secondary Classrooms: Meeting the Challenge of Diversity and Change. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Yager, R.E.. 2000. A Vision for What Science Education Should Be Like for the First 25 Years of a New Millennium. School, Science, and Mathematics, 100 (6), 327-341.
Contact person - Jenny Bardwell (jbardwell@hsc.wvu.edu)
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