From the NAME listserv (National Association for Multicultural Education), a call for papers for an edited volume, entitled Teaching to Difference. The collection will examine pedagogical issues in the classroom across ethnicities. Chapters are to be based on experiential (point of view) analysis. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following questions:
- How do you connect the (national/state) curriculum to the lived experiences of your students?
- If you as the teacher are the minority in your classroom (e.g., white teacher teaching predominantly racial/ethnic minority students or you are a racial/ethnic minority teaching to white students) how do you connect to students?
- What are the challenges and opportunities of diversity in the classroom in terms of the way you teach?
- How do you reconcile or navigate the gap/imbalance between diversity and multicultural public discourse from school and classroom practices?
- Pedagogically, how do you deal with the normalised practice of streaming minority students into special education, alternative schools and behavioural management programs?
Abstracts of less than 250 words and a brief bio of max 100 words to Nicole E. Johnson nejohnrob@yahoo.com by August 7, 2011 with Teaching to Difference in the subject line. (Final papers, if selected, are due Oct 31, 2011).
