Multicultural Education-in-Action: A Glimpse Into Administrator Narratives of Equity on a School Landscape

• In Event: 35.079 - Sheraton Roundtable Session Five - Grand Centre
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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the findings of a study examining a principal and vice–principal’s experiences in a diverse, urban K–8 school to underscore active and interactive conceptions of multicultural education. Our purpose was to gain a glimpse into administrators’ decision–making and implementation processes for multicultural education. We set out to examine administrators’ stories of educational leadership in a school with a large population of ethnically and socially diverse students, and explore challenges that administrators might encounter in the process of implementing culturally-responsive curriculum that affirms the diversity of the students. We emphasize how multicultural education is an educational focus that is of value to all students.

Authors

• Elaine Chan, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Candace M. Schlein, University of Missouri - Kansas City