Education, Multicultural Education
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Meeting Grounds
Cross-Cultural Encounters
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Most people have experienced a sense of “not fitting in” or “not belonging” when arriving in an unfamiliar setting. If you and the people in the “new” setting share the same language, you at least have the option of sorting out misunderstandings…...
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Crushing ICE
Short-on-Theory, Long-on-Practical Approaches to Imagination Creativity Education
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21st-century educators face a new frontier beyond the boundaries of traditional teaching practice and pedagogical praxis. Imagination Creativity Education (ICE) creates fresh opportunities for teachers who are committed to genuine, empowering,...
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My Life
Overcoming Classism through Faith and Perseverance
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For a boy growing up in Jamaica in the 1940s, going to school was not a given. Colonialism, colourism, and classism created educational barriers for anyone who wasn’t rich or white. But from these early struggles, Howard Palmer devoted his career...
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Flying With Peek-a-Boo Multi-Colored Feathers
A Teacher Reconnects with her Pioneering Efforts to Promote Multicultural Education
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Students learning how to witness the best version of themselves was an important aspect of pioneering multicultural education. I wanted the children to learn the larger truth about how the knowledge of themselves and others can spin into...
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The Chocolate Story
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Chances are that you like chocolate, right? But have you ever wondered where this delicious food comes from? In this colorful book, discover the author’s story of working on a cocoa plantation in Ghana, and follow the steps that cocoa takes to...
