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Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines

Multicultural Education and Cultural Ecological Systems in a Pluralistic Society

Volume 24, Issue 1/2, Fall/Winter 2004/2005
Thinking Critically, Choosing Politically II

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Ruben P. Viramontez Anguiano, Awad Ibrahim Thinking Critically, Choosing Politically II: Multicultural Education and Cultural Ecological Systems in a Pluralistic Society
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Walter Garcia Kawamoto The Japanese American Internment Experience Throughout the Decades: One Professor’s Multidisciplinary Perspective
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This paper focused on the role of a multicultural professor in teaching a multicultural class in Family Studies. Specifically the author illustrates the Japanese American internment camp experience in numerous aspects of his teaching. The article makes the connection between this social, political and historical experience of Japanese Americans to other ethnic groups suffrage. The article also incorporates a variety of methods and strategies to illustrate the internment camp issue and how that could potentially influence multicultural education in the United States.
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Susan H. Peet Controversy and Critical Thinking Involving African-American Families
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The purpose of this article is to present a classroom exercise and corresponding discussion for educators to use when teaching critical thinking skills to undergraduate students. The exercise involves applying critical thinking conccpts/questions offered by Browne and Keeley (2004) to a contemporary discussion about parenting issues among some African-American families. Comments by Dr. Bill Cosby have spurred debate about the parenting skills of some lower-income African-American parents. This article offers a classroom-based exercise that may be used to help undergraduate students develop critical thinking that are useful in engaging in productive discourse in issues of importance.
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Karen D. Johnson-Webb The Role of Migration, Family Characteristics and English-Language Ability in Latino Academic Achievement
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Latinos comprise the largest minority group in the U.S. and 63 percent are foreign-born. An educational gap exists between Latinos in the U.S. and other groups in the U.S. Lower educational attainment has ramifications for labor market and other socioeconomic outcomes. Factors involving family context have best explained the educational gap, along with English proficiency and migration history. This study, using the Census long-form data, explores the role of socio-economic background, ethnicity, and migration history on educational outcomes of Latinos in the Midwest, an area that is experiencing recent growth in its Latino population. Results indicate that these factors do impinge negatively on academic achievement of Latino and Non-Hispanic black youth. In order to be more effective in alleviating the achievement gap, multicultural education must not only incorporate culture and inclusion, but also a true understanding of the factors and circumstances that impact youth achievement and how these impact achievement.
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Ruben P. Viramontez Anguiano, Jessica Theis, Marco A. Chávez The Politics of Educating Latino Children: Latino Familial and Educational Systems
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The purpose of this paper is to illustrate and highlight the continued suffrage of Latino families as they have struggled to provide their children with an equal education. Through providing an overview of court cases that have directly impacted the interface between Latino families and the American educationaI system, the paper provides the reader with a historical, social and cultural understanding of the politics of educating Latino children. Moreover, this backdrop provides asound foundation for illustrating the educational and family research that has focused on Latino families and school partnerships and its impact on the politics of educattng Latino children. The authors end the paper by providing insight to the future of the Latino Intelegensia and the impIications it has for Latino families, schools and their communities
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Jennifer A. Michalenok Transformative Resistance Through Critical Literacy: Where are the Special Educators?
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The aim of this article is to bring together critical literacy or critical thinking and special education. Guided by Paulo Freire’s diligent work and my desire to work with inner-city students with special needs, my interest is twofold: first, to investigate the different ways in which inner-city youth can use critical literacy practices to have voice and affect personal and social change and, second, explore how critical literacy is connected to democratic principles essential to the foundation of progressive and transformative education for students with special need.
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Neil Levy Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate
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Claude Gratton Arguments about Arguments: Systematic, Critical and Historical Essays in Logical Theory
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