50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

Interethnic Contact and Change in the 21st Century

AvZirkel,Sabrina Zirkel

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

In 2004, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, yet issues of racial and ethnic integration in schools and colleges remain. The articles in this Issue explore both the processes and implications of interethnic contact in educational settings from elementary schools through universities, and suggest courses of action for educational institutions in the 21st century. outlines strategies schools and colleges can use to foster better interethnic relationships on campusexamines what predominantly White schools and colleges can do in faculty hiring and training and student programs to better address the needs of their students of colorexplores links between peer relationships at school and achievement motivation for students of colorstudies the implications of "English only" policies on the education of immigrant populationsinvestigates the struggles of faculty of color at predominantly White institutions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-04-20
Mått:156 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Journal of Social Issues
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781405120074

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Sabrina Zirkel, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Director of the Social Transformation Program at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. Her primary research interests are in identity development and change, and especially on how identity is shaped by social structure. Of particular interest in this area is the development of academic and professional identities among women and students of color in adolescence and adulthood. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. Gretchen E. Lopez, Ph.D. is Research Director of the Syracuse University Violence Prevention Project, in the School of Education. Her research interests include intergroup relations; race, ethnicity, and education; prosocial behavior and the effectiveness of school and community based programs. She completed her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of Michigan, and previously held faculty positions in Psychology and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University, and in Psychology at Syracuse University. Lisa M. Brown, Ph.D. is Research Assistant Professor at the NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology in the College of Health Professions at the University of Florida. Her research interests include stigma, intergroup relations, and physiological correlates of intergroup processes. She did her undergraduate work at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, and her graduate work at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Innehållsförteckning

50 years after Brown vs. Board of Education: the promise and challenge of multicultural education / Sabrina Zirkel and Nancy Cantor The benefits of diversity in education for democratic citizenship / Patricia Gurin, Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda, and Gretchen E. LopezDeveloping a more inclusive social identity : an elementary school intervention / Melissa A. Houlette, et al What will you think of me?: racial integration, peer relationships, and achievement among white students and students of color / Sabrina ZirkelInterethnic contact, curriculum, and attitudes in the first year of college / Gretchen E. LopezIs there an inherent mismatch between how black and white students expect to succeed in college and what their colleges expect from them? / Aaron M. Brower and Annemarie KetterhagenFamily life and school experience: factors in the racial identity development of black youth in white communities / Beverly Daniel TatumShift happens: Spanish and English transmission between parents and their children / Aída Hurtado and Luis A. Vega Students' of color and European American students' stigma-relevant perceptions of university instructors / Lisa M. Brown and Heather DobbinsColor-lines as fault-line: teaching interethnic relations in California in the 21st century / Stanley O. Gaines, Jr Learning about difference, learning with others, learning to transgress / Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda, Chan-woo Kim, and Yaffa TrueloveScience and social action: an introduction of Professor Daphne B. Bugental, recipient of SPSSI's 2003 Levin Award / Marilynn B. BrewerThriving in the face of early adversity / Daphne Blunt Bugental