Journal for Multicultural Education: Volume 18 Issue 4

“Reimagining education for our dreamchasers”: creating a humanizing education space through culturally relevant teaching for Latin(x) and black elementary students

Theresa Ann McGinnis, Eustace Thompson, Sheilah Jefferson-Isaac

This paper aims to explore how one elementary school administrative team responded to their changing student populations to include Latin(x) within their black community. The…

The educator’s role in democratic and multicultural societies: student perceptions at a teacher training college in Israel

Michal Hisherik, Ilana Paul-Binyamin

Educators are recognized as key agents of social change, responsible for shaping future citizens. Beyond imparting knowledge, teachers are crucial in addressing societal…

A doctorate doesn’t make you a “Doc”: the educational and sociocultural embodiment of culturally relevant pedagogies

Marcus Wayne Johnson, Anthony Johnson, Langston Clark, Jonathan E. Howe, Traveon Jefferson, Dionte McClendon, Brandon Crooms, Daniel J. Thomas

This study aims to stimulate scholarly attention and practical application pertaining to individuals recognized as “Docs.” Through conducting a comprehensive analysis and…

Multiculturalism in the curriculum: a comparative analysis of the Finnish, Irish and Hungarian national core curricula

Nikoletta Maria Gulya, Anikó Fehérvári

One key aspect of European curriculum reforms is to empower students with the skills needed to engage actively in the pluralistic and multicultural global society of the 21st…

The association between institutional setting, cultural intelligence and social interaction in a divided society: a study among students

Nasra Idilbi, Daniella Arieli, Carmit Satran, Ola Ali Saleh, Ofra Halperin

This study aims to explore the perception of students from conflicted groups studying nursing together regarding the intergroup encounter. Specifically, this study focused on…

Antisemitism as an integral part of anti-bias educational policies and practices

Deborah Greenblatt, Melanie D. Koss

The purpose of this paper is to show how the impact of White Supremacy and Christian hegemony on the educational system. By highlighting interconnectedness across targeted groups…

Learn bamboo from bamboo: a kinaesthetic communication approach to curating cultures, crafts, and construction for higher education

Chamila Subasinghe

Beyond symptomatic communication barriers between designers and communities, glocal resiliency building (GRB) by intercultural groups often challenges traditional service-learning…

“African root and American fruit”: African American families and culture in college choice

Teranda Donatto

Research shows that family is influential to African Americans in college choice (Chapman et al., 2018; Chapman et al., 2020; Freeman, 2005; Hines et al., 2019; Lowry, 2017;…

Becoming both: “students” and “experts” of race in Australian higher education contexts

Kathomi Gatwiri, Hyacinth Udah

This paper aims to highlight how Black African academics who live and work under coloniality are systematically seen as “out of place” and how this positioning compounds their…

Applying the anthropological theory of didactics to enhance a multicultural approach to statistics education for engineering students

José Luis Díaz Palencia

This work aims to introduce basic principles of the Anthropological Theory of Didactics applied to enhance the multicultural sensitivity in engineering statistics classroom. The…

Multicultural online science resources: exploring preservice teachers’ perspectives

Adepeju Olufunke Prince

Curriculum supplementation by teachers is an agelong tradition, and the widespread use of the internet has increased the use of online resources in the classroom. This paper aims…

Diversity’s (in)visibility at two Hispanic Serving Institutions: how the whiteness of higher education constrains racially diversifying the K-12 teaching force

Tara Schwitzman-Gerst

Most research about combating the whiteness of teacher education neglects to analyze the whiteness of the higher education institutional contexts housing teacher preparation…

Preschool teachers’ perspectives about diversity in nation-state country: a glimpse from Türkiye

Vahide Yigit Gencten, Mehmet Gultekin

This study aims to investigate preschool teachers' perspectives on diversity in the unique educational context of Türkiye, a nation-state often underrepresented in the…

The relationship between classroom racial/ethnic composition and teacher perceptions of work conditions

Fabian Barch, Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng

Prior research reveals that teachers have lower job satisfaction when they have more Black students, but this work does not consider how different aspects of work conditions – and…

The significance of ethnomathematics learning: a cross-cultural perspectives between Indonesian and Thailand educators

I Putu Ade Andre Payadnya, I Gusti Ayu Putu Arya Wulandari, Kadek Rahayu Puspadewi, Sompob Saelee

Ethnomathematics can help understand math concepts but is challenging in countries like Indonesia and Thailand due to its complexity. This study explores how math educators in…

“I am afflicted with the evil eye!” How Islamic cultural beliefs influence college students’ perceptions of their academic experience

Alanoud Alrashidi, Sara Alnufaishan

Islamic culture believes the evil eye can cause distress, mental illness, physical illness and even death through envious glances. However, the gap was highlighted about the…

Venezuelan migration to Brazil: teachers and students co-constructing multicultural education inside classrooms

Gabrielle Oliveira, Carolina Barbosa Lindquist, Estela Sato Shiratori, Leila Baptaglin

This study aims to show the complexities of engagement between students - Venezuelan and Brazilian - and their teachers. This qualitative ethnographic study documents the everyday…

Fostering newly resettled refugee-background adolescents’ self-efficacy and advocacy in a community-based youth program

Grace Hui-Chen Huang, Monica Miller Marsh

This study aims to explore the experiences of newly resettled refugee-background high school students participating in the Teen Response program, a community-based initiative to…

Dynamic intercultural learning and collaboration: transforming language teacher perspectives and practices

Soyoung Han, Roxanna Senyshyn

This study aims to examine the impact of intercultural learning and collaboration on two English as a world language teachers from South Korea and Taiwan within a virtual…

The human rights imperative in teacher education: developing compassion, understanding, and advocacy

Dinorah-Marie Hudson

Knowing silence: how children talk about immigration status in school

Jayson Castillo