The Multicultural Pavilion's Research Room contains original articles and essays on progressive, transformative, multicultural, social justice, and liberatory teaching and learning by educators around the world.
EdChange Working Paper Series by Paul C. Gorski
Critical Ties: The Animal Rights Awakening of a Social Justice Educator (PDF)
Cognitive Dissonance: A Critical Tool of Social Justice Teaching (PDF)
Peddling Poverty for Profit: Elements of Oppression in Ruby Payne's Framework (PDF, as published in Equity and Excellence in Education)
The Evolution of a Pro-Feminist (2008)
What We're Teaching Teachers: An Examination of Multicultural Teacher Education Coursework (PDF; note: a revised version of this essay was published in the journal, Teaching and Teacher Education)
Good Intentions Are Not Enough: A Decolonizing Intercultural Education (PDF; note: a revised version of this essay was published in the journal, Intercultural Education)
Taco Night (PDF)
Complicity with Conservatism: The De-politicizing of Multicultural Education (PDF)
Savage Unrealities: Uncovering Classism in Ruby Payne's Framework (PDF)
A Brief History of Multicultural Education
A Narrative on Whiteness and Multicultural Education
Transforming Myself to Transform My School
Multicultural Education and the Digital Divide
Am I Anishinaabe Enough? (PDF)
by Catherine Pulkinen, University of Wisconsin--Superior (2010)
Building Your Leadership Team: Value Systems, Memetics, and Education (PDF)
by Caleb Rosado, Rosado Consulting (2007)
What Do We Mean by "Managing Diversity"? (PDF)
by Caleb Rosado, Rosado Consulting (2007)
Transforming My Curriculum, Transforming My Classroom: Paulo Freire, James Banks, and Social Justice in a Middle School Classroom (PDF)
by Justin Hudalla, University of Minnesota (2006)
Culturally Responsive Teaching--Preacher Style (PDF)
by Jennifer Spates, Hamilton County Public Schools (2006)
Their View--My View: A White Teacher's Quest to Understand His African American Middle School Students' Views of Racism (PDF)
by John Melvin, Bret Harte Middle School/Mills College (2006)
Learning and Teaching English Without a Textbook:
An Action Research Study (Microsoft Word Document)
by Graciela González Cristo, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico (2005)
The Ethnography Project: A Method for Increasing Sensitivity in Teacher Candidates
by Nancy Harding, Pepperdine University (2005)
It's Not So Elementary: Practices to Disrupt Homophobia in Teacher Education Classes
by Anne René Elsbree, Anita E. Fernandez, & Penelope A. Wong, California State University, Chico (2005) [download as Word document]
Please Check Your Baggage: Considering Cultural Biases and Critical Issues in the Adult ESL Classroom when Using Computer Technology
by LaurieAnne Rosenblatt (2004)
A Native American Approach to Teaching and Learning
by Lauen Wakau-Villagomez (2003)
Racism in Staten Island 09.03
by Marie Ng (2003)
Multicultural Representations in Basal Reader Series
by Kira Isak Pirofski of San Jose State University (2003)
Racial Ambiguity, Educational Access, and Social Impact: From the Classroom to the Ivory Tower
by Lorri J. Santamaría of California State University, San Marcos (2002)
Building Blocks: The First Steps of Creating a Multicultural Classroom
by Larri Fish of Siena College (2002)
Gender Bias in Education
by Amanda Chapman of D'Youville College (2002)
Cultural Crisis in Education
by Amanda Chapman, Amy Davidson, and Carey Panet of D'Youville College (2002)
Critical Multicultural Education and the Media
by Julia Petrozza of D'Youville College (2002)
Eliminating Racism in the Classroom
by Richard Morgan of D'Youville College (2001)
Race, Gender, and Disability in Today's Children's Literature
by Kira Isak Pirofski of San Jose State University (2001)
Multicultural Literature and the Children's Literary Canon
by Kira Isak Pirofski of San Jose State University (2001)
International Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity: An Annotated Bibliography
by Heewon Chang and Timothy Dodd of Eastern College (2001)
Camino hacia la globalización: El bagaje cultural
Sahnya Shulterbrandt, Directora de Ediciones y Desarrollo, INTER-FORUM Newsletter at FORUM INTERCULTURA, S.A. (2001)
Cabeza de Ratón, antes que Cola de León: El Nuevo Orden Mundial desde la óptica del Tercer Mundo
Sahnya Shulterbrandt, Directora de Ediciones y Desarrollo, INTER-FORUM Newsletter at FORUM INTERCULTURA, S.A. (2001)
Hands-on Mathematics + Multicultural Education = Student Success
by Patty Adeeb, Nova Southeastern University and Janet Bosnick, University of North Florida (2000)
A Cultural Plunge
by Gary Fortune (2000)
Re-examining the Rhetoric of the "Cultural Border"
by Heewon Chang, Eastern College (2000)
Diversity Is About Change and Leadership
by Jose Soto, Southeast Community College (1999)
Reading Hypertext - From Global Culture to the Discourse of Individual Identity
by Luís Mendes, School of Education of Lamego (Polytechnic Institute of Viseu), Portugal (1999)
A Dissertation on Racial and Gender Identity Development in White Male Multicultural Educators and Facilitators
by Paul Gorski, now at the University of Maryland's Office of Human Relations (1998)
Multicultural Education
by Keith Wilson of Penn State (1996)
Anti-Racist Community Work--A Radical Approach
by Rowena Arshad of Edinburgh, Scotland (1997)
Calendar and Cultures
by Richard Alpert of Amherst Publishing (1997)
Comparing Cultures
by Karin Blair (1997)
Freedom's Road Is Long and Hard
by Marquetta L. Goodwine (1997)
Black Community/Black America
by Calvin O. L. Henry (1997)
Articles by Caleb Rosado
Death by Discrimination?
by Joe Feagin of the University of Florida (1998)
Blinding Sight: A Question of Color
by Gene-Tey Shin (1998)
Cultural Liberation: East-West Biculturalism for a New Century
by Steve McCarty (1998)
The Language of Closet Racism
by Paul Gorski (1995)
I am seeking essays and articles on multicultural education and related topics to include in the Research Room. You need not be an established author to submit your work. In fact, I highly encourage classroom teachers and other practitioners to contribute your ideas and philosophies to the literature through this site.
