NIUSI

part of the Education Reform Networks

Creativity

• Teaching Mathematics from a Multicultural Perspective
  The author describes principles and instructional strategies for teaching mathematics to culturally diverse students. She explains the fundamental principles of multicultural mathematics; approaches to multicultural mathematics instruction (e.g., portrayal of cultural groups in instructional materials and historical roots of mathematics concepts); and instructional strategies for diverse student(e.g., high expectations, questioning, cooperative learning, and technology use).
• Expectations Great and Small: The Mental Maps of Teachers and Systems
  The author of this article discussed how high and low expectations were communicated to British students both directly by what teachers say and indirectly through the systems and processes through which teachers work. The author examined racial and social biases and notes that expectations can be self-fulfilling prophesies.
• Action Research and Practical Inquiry: Multicultural Content Integration in Gifted Education: Lessons from the Field
  This article includes of an informal survey of 71 teachers of the gifted participating in an in-service course on gifted education. The authors suggested that many teachers had goals and experiences related to multicultural curricula for gifted children.
• Challenges of Urban Education: Sociological Perspectives for the Next Century
  Challenges of Urban Education includes a range of topics from quantitive analyses of student demographics to the description and analysis of urban high school students' creative writing. The book bridges the dualisms of local and global, theory and practice, and structure and agency.
• Give Us a Taste of Your Quality! A Report from the Heartland on the Role of the Arts in Multicultural Settings
  The authors of this article discusses the role of the arts in multicultural education, explaining how diverse students react to and need support in the arts in order to succeed. They focuses on the efforts of urban elementary and secondary schools in Madison, Wisconsin.
• The Multicultural Science Framework: Research on Innovative Two-Way Immersion Science Classrooms
  The author of this article reviewed the different approaches to multicultural science teaching that have emerged in the past decade, focusing on the Spanish-English two-way immersion classroom, which meets the needs of Spanish speakers learning English and introduces students to the idea of collaboration across languages and cultures. Two urban two-way immersion classrooms in Texas and New York are described by the author for exemplary practices.
• Creativity and Giftedness in Culturally Diverse Students. Perspectives on Creativity
  The author of this book addressed issues concerned with identification and educational intervention with gifted students who are from culturally diverse backgrounds.