- Title
- Directions and mis-directions in multicultural education: an analysis of session offerings at the Annual Conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education
- Creator
- Amosa, Wendy; Gorski, Paul C.
- Relation
- Multicultural Perspectives Vol. 10, Issue 3, p. 167-174
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15210960802198373
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Our exploration begins with a critical analysis of the presentations offered at the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) 2004 and 2005 conferences. We seek to answer, as our central question, “to what extent do the presentations offered at NAME’s annual conferences reflect, as a whole, the organization’s stated philosophies and multicultural education’s commitment to equity and social justice?” To inform our response to this question, we investigated the topics (i.e., curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, teacher education, etc.) that were most and least frequently focused upon among the presentations at the 2004 and 2005 conferences and which identity-based groups (i.e., Asian-Americans, women, the LGBT community, Muslims, etc.) received the most and least attention in these presentations. We also considered whose voices were most and least present in the presentations. While this is by no means an exhaustive analysis, we hope that this initial investigation will provide a point of departure for further and more rigorous analysis. We conduct this exploration not in the spirit of judgment, but in the spirit of reflection, respect, and love, as members of the NAME family.
- Subject
- National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME); conferences; organisational philosophy; multicultural education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41397
- Identifier
- uon:4764
- Identifier
- ISSN:1521-0960
- Language
- eng
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