Special Issues of Multicultural Education Still Available:
Fall 2019 Special Issue: School Administration, Multicultural Education, & Inclusion
Guest-edited by Tanya Tarbutton & A. Y. “Fred” Ramirez. Articles include: “Preparing School Leaders to Advocate for Social Justice” by Jaymi Abusham. “The Leadership Gap in Education” by Tanya Tarbutton. “Disability as Culture” by Jericha Hopson. “Interrupting Inequitable Discipline Practices” by Jessica Katz-Amey. “The Unfamiliar Superintendent” by Sonia Rodriguez. and much more.
Winter 2018 Special Issue: 21st Century Learning & Multicultural Education
Guest-edited by Malia M. Hoffmann & A. Y. “Fred” Ramirez. Articles include: “Leveraging 21st Century Learning & Technology to Create Caring Diverse Classroom Cultures” by Tanya Tarbutton. “Standards-Based Technology Integration for Emergent Bilinguals” by Briana Ronan. “Social Media & English Learners’ Academic Literacy Development” by Dong-shin Shin. “Literature Circles 2.0: Updating a Classic Strategy for the 21st Century” by Luis Javier Pentón Herrera & Tabitha Kidwell. “Student Attitudes Toward Teacher Use of Technology in Classrooms” by Malia M. Hoffmann & A. Y. “Fred” Ramirez. and much more
Spring/Summer 2014 Special Issue: Family, School, & Community Partnerships
Guest-edited by Reyes Quezada. Articles include: “Cultural Capital in the Village” by Angela Louque & Yvette LaTunde. “Operationalizing Consejos in the P-20 Education Pipeline” by Daisy D. Alfaro, Karen O’Reilly-Diaz, & Gerardo R. Lopez. “Partnerships & Networks in Migrant Education” by Fernando Rodriguez-Valls & Celina Torres. “Documenting Literacy in the Community” by Angela M. Wiseman. and much more
Fall 2013 Special Issue: Sustainability Education
Guest-edited by Thomas Nelson, John A. Cassell, & Harriett B. Arnold. Featuring articles that discuss the human-environmental relationship: “Situating Systems Thinking between Past & Present” by Chanthou Thoeum. “Native-American & Euro-American Cultures” by Doe A. S. Hain-Jamall. “Multicultural Perspectives through Music & Sustainability Education” by Roger Coss. “Transforming Multicultural Classrooms through Creative Place-Based Learning” by Connor Sloan. “Connecting Multiculturalism, Sustainability, & Teacher Education” by Charlane Starks. and much more
Winter 2011 Special Issue: Linguistically Diverse Students & Their Families
Guest-edited by A. Y. “Fred” Ramirez. Articles include: “How School Leaders Can Accent Inclusion for Bilingual Students, Families, & Communities ” by Martin Scanlan. “Increasing Academic Oral Language Development” by Ivannia Soto-Hinman. “Schools Reading Parents’ Worlds” by Alice A. Miano. “A Look at ‘Lookism’” by Debra DeCastro-Ambrosetti & Grace Cho.
Winter 2007 Special Issue: Hurricane Katrina: Schools, Culture, & Trauma
Guest-edited by Aretha Faye Marbley, Alice Denham, & Douglas J. Simpson. Articles exploring the educational and social impact of Katrina include: “Teaching Children of Catastrophe” by Geneva Gay. “A Call to Consciousness: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina” by Aretha Faye Marbley, plus five pages of art work by Eddie Dixon, internationally recognized for his historical sculptures in bronze. and much more.
Winter 2006 Special Issue: Innovative Practices Issue
Guest-edited by Heather L. Hazuka. Includes articles on new and exciting multicultural education pedagogy: “A Love Supreme—Riffing on the Standards” by Herbert Kohl. “Critically Compassionate Intellectualism for Latina/o Students” by Julio Cammarota & Augustine Romero. “‘Everything They Were Giving Us Created Tension’: Creating and Managing Tension in a Graduate-Level Multicultural Course” by Lori Czop Assaf & Caitlin McMunn Dooley. plus much more
Winter 2005 Special Issue: Family Diversity & Parental Involvement
Issue guest-edited by A. Y. “Fred” Ramirez. Featuring articles that discuss families, multicultural theory, and parental participation in schools, including: “Expanding Multicultural Education to Include Family Diversity” by Tammy A. Turner-Vorbeck. “Do Parents Value Education? Teachers’ Perceptions of Minority Parents” by Debra DeCastro-Ambrosetti & Grace Cho. “Can Special Education Teachers Create Parent Partnership with Mexican American Families? !Si Se Pueda!” by Loretta Salas, Eric J. Lopez, Kathleen Chinn, & Eva Menchaca-Lopez. plus much more.
Three recent book releases:
The War Schools of Dobrinja: Reading, Writing, and Resistance during the Siege of Sarajevo is described in the Preface by author David M. Berman of the University of Pittsburgh in this way:
"This book... is difficult to write... perhaps a schizophrenic attempt at best to write an academic analysis of an intensely human experience, of a struggle for survival under the most desperate of conditions, of a struggle to save the children of Dobrinja. In academic terms, this book is a case study of the war schools of Dobrinja set within the background of schooling throughout the besieged city of Sarajevo. In more human terms, this is the story of the teachers and students of Dobrinja, the students who asserted their right to their education and the teachers who answered their call...
This is a book that will grip an audience of educators and non-educators alike.
Key Questions for Educators, edited by William Hare and John P. Portelli, brings together 40 original essays by well-known educational thinkers aimed at exploring and discussing major issues and central concepts in education. The result is a network of ideas that will be valuable to theoreticians and practitioners alike.
The Judicious Professor: A Learner-Centered Philosophy for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education by Paul Gathercoal and Forrest Gathercoal examines the role and responsibilities of college and university teachers, with the conclusion that when students perceive the professor as a person who is sharing responsibility for student academic achievement, the number of successful students will increase greatly and the knowledge-base will be widely distributed throughout society.