Cultivating and Expanding Equitable Education Opportunity by Implementing Multicultural Research, Policy, and Practice

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

To cultivate and expand equal educational opportunity, education must be reimagined and new systems created that foster transformative teaching and learning. The presentations in this session will focus on research, policies, and practices that provide a foundation for reimagining schooling so that students from diverse racial, cultural, social-class, and linguistic groups will attain high achievement levels. The topics that will be discussed include institutionalized racism; culturally responsive teaching; ethnic studies, and policies for redesigning schools for diverse population groups. The presentations in this session address complex educational issues based on chapters that will be published in a book commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Multicultural Education Series at Teacher College Press, Transforming Multicultural Education Policy and Practice: Expanding Educational Opportunity.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• James A. Banks, University of Washington

Papers

• The Role of Schools in Reducing Racial Inequality - Pedro A. Noguera, University of Southern California

• Structural and Institutional Racism in Schools - Ozlem Sensoy, Simon Fraser University

• What Research Says About Ethnic Studies - Christine E. Sleeter, California State University - Monterey Bay

• Culturally Responsive Pedagogy - Tyrone C. Howard, University of California - Los Angeles

• Organizing for Success: From Inequality to Quality - Linda Darling-Hammond, Learning Policy Institute

Discussant

• Diana E. Hess, University of Wisconsin - Madison