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Books
Beaty, Janice, J. (1997). Building Bridges with Multicultural
Picture
Books: For Children 3-5. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice-Hall.
ISBN: 0-13-400102-8.
1. Discovering Common Bonds 2. Choosing Appropriate
Picture Books 3. Developing
Self-Esteem
4. Relating to Family Members 5. Getting Along with
Other
Children 6. Engaging in Physical
Expression
7. Speaking Other Languages 8. Eating Fine
Foods
9. Creating Arts and Crafts 10. Making Music and
Dance
11. Caring about the Earth 12. Creating a
Multicultural
Curriculum
Derman-Sparks, Louise & the A.B.C. Task Force (1989). Anti-Bias
Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children. Washington,
DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
1. Why an Anti-Bias Curriculum? 2. Creating an
Anti-Bias
Environment 3. Beginning: Working With
2-Year-Olds
4. Learning About Racial Difference and Similarities
5. Learning About Disabilities 6. Learning About
Gender
Identity 7. Learning About Cultural Differences and
Similarities
8. Learning To Resist Stereotyping and Discriminatory
Behavior
9. Activism With Young Children 10 Holiday Activities
in an Anti-Bias Curriculum 11. Working with
Parents
12. Getting Started: A Self-Education Guide.
Lee, Enid, Menkart, Deborah, & Okazawa-Rey Margo (1998). Beyond
Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist,
Multicultural
Education and Staff Development. Washington, DC: Network of
Educators
on the Americas. ISBN: 1-878554-11-5.
School Staff, Family and Community Development: Overview,
Lessons Learned, Activities for Workshops, Courses
and
Institutes.
Reading Between the Lines: Critical Literacy
Language
Lessons for the Classroom: Early
Childhood,
Social Studies and Language Arts,
Mathematics,
Science and Geography, The Arts
Technology
School-Wide Activities
Holidays and Heritage
Talking Back
Lynch, Eleanor, W. and Hanson, Marci J. (1999). Developing
Cross-Cultural
Competence: A Guide for Working with Children and their Families. Baltimore,
MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing. ISBN 1-55766-331-9
Part I: Introduction: Ethnic, Cultural, and Language
Diversity
in Intervention Settings, Conceptual Framework: From
Culture Shock to Cultural Learning, Developing
Cross-Cultural
Competence.
Part II: Cultural Perspectives: Families with
Anglo-European
Roots, Native American Roots,
African
American Roots, Asian Roots,
Pilipino
Roots, Native Hawaiian and Samoan
Roots,
Middle Eastern Roots, Children of Many Songs.
Part III: Summary and Implications: Steps
in the
Right Direction: Implications of Interventionists.
Park, Clara C. and Chi, Marilyn Mei-Ying (1999). Asian-American
education:
Prospects and challenges. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey. ISBN:
0-89789-603-3
Tabors, Patton O. (1997). One Child, Two Languages:
A Guide
for Preschool Educators of Children Learning English as a Second
Language.
Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing. ISBN 1-55766-272-X.
Part I: Second-Language-Learning Child's Task: Two
Portraits:
Juliana and Byong-sun, Getting Started in a Second
Language,
Individual Differences in Second-Language Learning.
Part II: The Teacher's Role: Using Communication
and Classroom
Organization to Support Second-Language Learning,
Using
Curriculum to Facilitate Second Language Learning,
Working
with Parents of Second Language Learners, Assessing
the
Development of Second-Language Learners, Developing
Effective
Preschool Programs for Second-Language Learners.
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