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 Essay and Working Paper Series by Paul C. Gorski
Burnout in Social Justice and Human Rights Activists: Symptoms, Causes, and Implications (2015) by Cher Chen and Paul C. Gorski, published in the Journal Human Rights Practice
Equity Literacy for All (2015): an article by Paul C. Gorski and Katy Swalwell in Educational Leadership magazine
Poverty, Class, and the Cultivation of Economically Just Educational Policy (2014): an article by Paul C. Gorski for Research Intelligence, a publication of the British Educational Research Association
Consumerism as Racial and Economic Injustice: The Macroaggressions that Make Me, and Maybe You, a Hypocrite (2014): from the journal, Understanding and Dismantling Privilege
Case Studies on Diversity & Social Justice Education (2014): an excerpt from the book by Paul C. Gorski and Seema Pothini, published in Teaching Tolerance magazine
Imagining Equity Literacy (or, The Insufficiency of Cultural Proficiency) (2014): a guest blog for the Teaching Tolerance web site
An Examination of the (In)Visibility of Sexual Orientation, Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Other LGBTQ Concerns in U.S. Multicultural Teacher Education Coursework (2013) by Paul C. Gorski, Shannon N. Davis, and Abigail Reiter, published in the Journal of LGBT Youth
Building a Pedagogy of Engagement for Students in Poverty (2013): published in Phi Delta Kappan, a brief synthesis of instructional and relational strategies.
Five Stereotypes About Poor Families and Education (2013): an excerpt of my book, Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty, published by the Washington Post.
Social Justice: Not Just Another Term for "Diversity": short blog post on the relationship between diversity and social justice efforts in higher education contexts, written for the ACPA Commission for Social Justice Educators
Complicating White Privilege: Race, Class, and the Nature of the Knapsack: my brief (and illustrated!) essay about how I came to understand the limitations of today's conversations about "white privilege"(see the version pubished by Counter punch here)
Perceiving the Problem of Poverty and Schooling: Deconstructing the Class Stereotypes that Mis-Shape Education Practice and Policy (2012): published in the journal, Equity & Excellence in Education
Instructional, Institutional, and Sociopolitical Challenges of Teaching Multicultural Teacher Education Courses (2012): published in the journal, The Teacher Educator
Self-Efficacy and Multicultural Teacher Education in the United States: The Factors that Influence Who Feels Qualified to Be a Multicultural Teacher Educator (2012) by Paul C. Gorski, Shannon N. Davis, and Abigail Reiter, published in the journal, Multicultural Perspectives
Introduction to Assault on Kids: How Hyper-Accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies, and Ruby Payne Are Destroying Our Schools (2011, Peter Lang Publishers)
by Roberta Ahlquist, Paul C. Gorski, and Theresa Montaño
Is There a Hierarchy of Oppression in Multicultural Teacher Education? (2011): published in the journal, Action in Teacher Education
Taco Night (revised 2011)
Short humor piece on the dangers of reducing educational equity to "celebrating the joys of diversity."
Equity and Social Justice from the Inside-Out: Ten Commitments of a Multicultural Educator (2011): an entry for the FEDCAN blog
Education Equity and the Trouble with Pragmatic Decision Making (2011): an essay written for the LeadScape blog
When It Was Poster Board: Computer Technologies and School Disadvantage (2011): a blog entry for Classism Exposed
Unlearning Deficit Ideology and the Scornful Gaze: Thoughts on Authenticating the Class Discourse in Education (2010; a revised version of this essay appears in the book, Assault on Kids: How Hyper-Accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies, and Ruby Payne Are Destroying Our Schools [Peter Lang, 2011])
The Scholarship Informing the Practice: Multicultural Teacher Education Philosophy and Practice in the U.S. (2010)
an analysis of data from the Social Justice and Multicultural Teacher Educators Resource Survey, published by the International Journal of Multicultural Education
A Wealth of Whammies for Youth in Poverty (2010)
an article for the blog, Classism Exposed
Critical Ties: The Animal Rights Awakening of a Social Justice Educator (2009)
a short reflective article by Paul C. Gorski about how he came to recognize the critical link between social justice and animal rights
Becoming Joey (2009)
a poem about dual identity, race, and schooling by Paul C. Gorski
note: a version of this poem was published in the book, White Teachers/Diverse Classrooms
Cognitive Dissonance: A Critical Tool of Social Justice Teaching (published in Multiculticultural Education, 2009)
by Paul C. Gorski
note: you can read, as well, the original working paper version of this essay
What We're Teaching Teachers: An Examination of Multicultural Teacher Education Coursework (Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education, 2009)
by Paul C. Gorski
note: you also can read the original working paper version of this essay
Peddling Poverty for Profit: Elements of Oppression in Ruby Payne's Framework (2009, as published in Equity and Excellence in Education)
by Paul C. Gorski
The Myth of the Culture of Poverty (2008)
Paul C. Gorski's essay published in Educational Leadership.
Savage Unrealities: Racism and Classism Abound in Ruby Payne's Framework (2008)
Paul C. Gorski's essay published in Rethinking Schools.
The Evolution of a Pro-Feminist (2008)
by Paul C. Gorski
note: a version of this short reflective essay will be published in the 2nd edition of the book, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice
Good Intentions Are Not Enough: A Decolonizing Intercultural Education (Intercultural Education, 2008)
by Paul C. Gorski
note: you also can read the original working paper version of this essay
Taco Night (2007)
Paul C. Gorski's short humor piece on the dangers of reducing educational equity to "celebrating the joys of diversity."
The Question of Class (2007)
published by Teaching Tolerance
Insisting on Digital Equity: Reframing the Dominant Discourse on Multicultural Education and Technology (Urban Education, 2007)
by Paul C. Gorski
note: you also can raed the original working paper version of this essay
The De-politicizing of Multicultural and Intercultural Education (2006)
by Paul C. Gorski
note: a revised version of this essay was published in the journal, Intercultural Education
Savage Unrealities: Uncovering Classism in Ruby Payne's Framework (2005)
by Paul C. Gorski
note: versions of this article have been published in Rethinking Schools and Teachers College Record
Savage Unrealities: Abridged Version (2005)
This is a shortened version of the above essay.
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 University of Kentucky (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.
