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Working with Culturally and Linguistically
Diverse Children
Books and videos
- Artiles, A.J., & Ortiz, A. A. (2002). English Language Learners
With Special Education Needs: Identification, Assessment, and Instruction.
Washington, DC:
Center for Applied Linguistics.
This book describes the challenges involved in identifying, placing, and teaching
English language learners with special education needs. Because many of these
learners are placed inappropriately, this book aims to guide educators on how
to meet their individual needs. It describes model programs and approaches, including
early intervention programs, assessment methods, parent/school collaboration,
and native and dual language instruction.
- Baker, C. (2000). The Care and Education of Young Bilinguals: An Introduction
for Professionals. Tonawanda, NY: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
This is a great introduction for professionals working with bilingual children,
such as speech therapists, doctors, psychologists, counselors, teachers, and
special needs personnel. The book addresses among other issues: the nature of
bilingual children, everyday language use of bilinguals, children as interpreters,
dialects and bilingualism, home and school relationships, bilingual classrooms,
language delay and language disorder, and the assessment of bilingual children
with special needs.
- Ballenger, C. (1998). Teaching Other People's Children: Literacy and Learning
in a Bilingual Classroom. Teachers College Press
A teacher describes her experience teaching Haitian children in an inner-city
preschool. The author struggles to find the academic strengths of children whose
parents do not read them bedtime stories or otherwise prepare them for school
in ways that are familiar to her. The author uses research to explore how teachers
who listen closely to children from other cultures can understand the approaches
to literature that these children bring with them to school. This book focuses
on classroom behavior, concepts of print, and storybook reading, challenging
many widely held assumptions and cultural perspectives about early childhood
education.
- Banks, J. A. (2000). Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations,
Curriculum, and Teaching (4th Ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon
This textbook provides a strong background in the conceptual, theoretical, and
philosophical issues in multicultural education. It is designed to help pre-service
and in-service educators clarify the philosophical and definitional issues related
to pluralistic education, derive a philosophical position, design and implement
effective teaching strategies that reflect ethnic and cultural diversity, and
prepare sound guidelines for multicultural programs and practices. This book
describes actions that educators can take to institutionalize educational programs
and practices related to ethnic and cultural diversity. The scope of this edition
has been broadened to include a focus on gender, disability, and giftedness.
- Banks, J. A., & Banks, C. A. M. (2004). Multicultural Education:
Issues and Perspectives (Fifth Ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/Jossey-Bass
Education
This handy reference is designed to help present and future educators acquire
the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become effective practitioners
in culturally, racially, and language diverse classrooms and schools. The Fifth
Edition reflects current and emerging research, concepts, and debates about the
education of students from both genders and from different cultural, racial,
ethnic, and language groups.
- Barrera, I., Corso, R. & Macpherson, D. (2003). Skilled dialogue:
Strategies for responding to cultural diversity in early childhood.
Baltimore: Paul
H. Brooks.
Skilled Dialogue is a field-tested model for respectful, reciprocal, and responsive
interaction that honors cultural beliefs and values. This book helps practitioners
learn the importance of cultural competence, improve their relationships with
the children and families they serve, and better address developmental and educational
goals.
- Boutte, G. (1999). Multicultural Education: Raising Consciousness.
NY: Wadsworth Publishing Co.
This text examines multicultural issues of education from early childhood through
elementary school, high school, university, to the workplace. Testing and parenting
issues are examined along with many areas of multiculturalism including ethnicity,
religion, exceptionality, socioeconomic status, and gender. Institutional and
individual discrimination are both explored
- Brice, A. E. (2002). The Hispanic Child: Speech, Language, Culture,
and Education. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
This book addresses the issues and struggles of today's Hispanic school-age children.
This book is a good resource for clinicians and educators working with a bilingual
caseload, because it aims to help them understand and interact with their bilingual
students and provide appropriate services
- Cordeiro, P. A., Reagan, T. G., & Martinez, L. P. (1994). Multiculturalism
and TQE: Addressing Cultural Diversity in Schools. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Corwin Press Inc.
American schools are facing challenges of increased racial and ethnic diversity,
recognition of gender inequality, and the changing demographics of the American
family. The authors of this book address the barriers of prejudice and discrimination
that must be overcome to ensure an equitable, accessible, and high-quality education
for all students. The book provides activities and approaches that can be used
to broaden awareness, understanding and communication. It promotes the incorporation
of the philosophy of Total Quality Education (TQE) with multicultural teaching
in positive and supporting ways.
- Delpit, L. D. (1996). Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in
the Classroom. New York: The New Press
Because many of America’s classrooms are diverse, but are being taught
by white teachers, Lisa Delpit suggests that many academic problems
of minority
children
are the result of miscommunication and inequality in schools
- Derman-Sparks, L. & the A.B.C. Task Force (1998). Anti-Bias Curriculum:
Tools for Empowering Young Children. (Available from NAEYC Resources
Online Catalog www.naeyc.org/resources).
This resource shows early childhood educators how to examine biases and learn
how they influence children. It offers ways to reduce, handle, or even eliminate
biases and how to create an anti-bias environment that is developmentally appropriate.
- Gay, G. (2000). Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research,
and Practice Teacher’s College Press
In this wonderful new volume, Geneva Gay makes a convincing case for using culturally
responsive teaching to improve the school performance of underachieving students
of color.
- Genesee, F. (1994). Educating Second Language Children: The Whole
Child, The Whole Curriculum, The Whole Community. Cambridge University
Press.
This is a collection of articles from fourteen elementary education experts.
Through an integrative approach to second language education, the book goes
beyond language teaching methodology to cover a wide range of issues affecting
the academic and social success of language minority children. It deals not only
with second language development but with the development of the whole child.
It addresses the entire curriculum, rather than focusing on language instruction.
It also examines the role of the school, family and community.
- González, M. L., Huerta-Macías, A., & Tinajero, J. V. (2002). Educating
Latino Students: A Guide to Successful Practice. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow
Press, Inc.
Today’s teachers and administrators are in an influential position
to reach Latino students and provide them the education they need for
success.
The
chapters discuss
ways to create a supportive school culture and exemplary practices
for educating Latinos from early childhood throughout high school.
- Howard, G. R. (1999). We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers,
Multiracial Schools (Multicultural Education Series). New York
Gary Howard engages his readers through a journey of personal and professional
transformation. He looks deeply into his own white identity to discover what
it means to be a culturally competent White teacher in racially diverse schools.
This book offers a healing vision of the future of education in pluralistic nations.
- Infant/Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Culturally Sensitive Care.
California Dept. of Education Press.
www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/
This guide is intended to be used in conjunction with a four-module video training
course for providers of family and center child care. The videos cover caregiving
techniques for a specific area of care, and the guides provide extensive and
in-depth coverage of a topic. This guide helps caregivers find ways to support
the early development of infants and toddlers by becoming sensitive to the role
of children's home culture and language.
- Kendall, F. E. (1996). Diversity in the Classroom: New Approaches
to the Education of Young Children Teacher’s College Press.
Frances Kendall addresses many aspects of antibias educationfrom the stages
of child development to strategies for educating parentsfocusing particularly
on the teacher’s role as an agent of change. Kendall promotes teachers’ self-awareness
and provides guidelines for setting up multicultural environments and
curricula.
- Mallory, B., & New, R. (eds.). (1994). Diversity and Developmentally
Appropriate Practices: Challenges for Early Childhood Education Teachers
College Press.
This book discusses various issues surrounding diversity, inclusion, and appropriate
early educational practices.
- Reyes, M. L, & Halcón, J.J. (eds.). (2001). The Best for Our Children:
Critical Perspectives on Literacy for Latino Students. New York: Teachers
College
Press.
This watershed volume brings together the foremost leading authorities and scholars
lending their individual voices to a single, urgent issue: literacy for Latino
students.
- Trawick-Smith, J. (2003). Early Childhood Development: A Multicultural
Perspective (3rd ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice Hall.
This book takes a multicultural approach to development in children from birth
to age 8, with an expansive coverage of children with special needs. Diversity
is incorporated into case studies and examples that provide future teachers with
a hands-on guide to how children develop, how children's skills develop, and
how that development should inform sensitive, successful teaching practice.
- Vold, E.B., (ed.). (1993). Multicultural Education in Early Childhood
Classrooms Teacher’s College Press.
This book is provides a rationale for multicultural education and serves as a
manual for teachers. It includes activities and strategies for teaching preschool
and primary-age children from a multicultural perspective.
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