Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lang, Marvel
• Salas, Gumecindo

Titel

Multicultural Education in Michigan's Public Schools: Policy and Practice

Ist Teil von

• Equity & excellence in education, 1998-12, Vol.31 (3), p.64-72

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Examines the impact of student & staff racial minority composition on MI public school districts' educational practices since 1978, when the State Board of Education established a policy position on multiculturalism. In survey questionnaires collected 1996/97 from 48 school districts, 16 districts reported they were aware of state policy & had adopted their own, but only 3 had district-level guidelines for implementing multicultural education. Racial & ethnic diversity was perceived as the essence of multiculturalism, independent of the relative presence/absence of minority students in the district, per chi-square tests. Affirmative action policies were positively related to presence of minority teachers & to federal mandates, more than an espousal of multiculturalism. Districts with multicultural policies in place were significantly more likely to encourage teacher sensitivity to multiculturalism; presence of minority students did not influence sensitivity. It is concluded that legislative mandates & funding are required if multicultural policies are to become more widespread in local school districts. 3 Tables, 46 References. M. Pflum