Teaching Team

Susan Buie, Everett Harper, Dr. Fran Jackson, Dr. Beverly Washington Jones

Curriculum

NCCU's -ISM (N.) course, "Using Video to Examine the Isms", was offered through the School of Education at the university.

The course highlighted the School of Education's knowledge-base theme, "Educators for Diverse Cultural Contexts", by providing students with competencies in multicultural education. The class used video production in the development of skills in intercultural communication, intergroup relations and culturally-responsive teaching strategies. Students analyzed the socio-cultural dimension that impacts the educational process for African American, Hispanic/Latino, female and economically disadvantaged students. Students also examined the various Isms , prejudices, stereotypes and differing value systems in an attempt to better understand the social and cultural impact on teaching/learning process.

Students in the course met with students from UNC-Chapel Hill, who also participated in the -ISM (N.) project, for an opportunity to exchange ideas and examine the similarities and differences between the two universities.

Community Educational Activity

Students from NCCU's Spring 1996 -ISM (N.) course will use experiential activities, videos, and other methods to initiate discussions about diversity issues with middle school students as part of the Saturday Academy, established by the NC Department of Human Resources to provide enrichment activities for 150 middle school students in the Durham area. In addition, -ISM (N.) students will conduct focus groups with students in dorms and other campus areas at North Carolina Central University.

Contact: Fran Jackson, fjackson@nccu.edu

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Resources Used In Course

hooks, bell. (1992). Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press. (NCCU)

Banks, James. "Multicultural Education as an Academic Discipline: Goals for the 21st Century", Multicultural Education.Winter 1993. (NCCU)

Banks, James. "Multiethnic Education: Practices and Promises", Fastback, Number 87, Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappan Educational Foundation, 1977. (NCCU)

Chiles, Nick. "Separate and Savagely Unequal", Essence. August 1992. (NCCU)

Delpit, Lisa. "The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children", Harvard Educational Review. Volume 58, No.3, August 1988. (NCCU)

Figueroa, Richard A. and Garcia, Eugene. "Issues in Testing Students from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds", Multicultural Education. Fall 1994. (NCCU)

Gay, Geneva. "Bridging Multicultural Theory and Practice", Multicultural Education. Fall 1995. (NCCU)

Grant, Carl. "Challenging the Myths about Multicultural Education", Multicultural Education, Winter 1994. (NCCU)

Hilliard, Asa G., III and Pine, Gerald J. "RX for Racism: Imperatives for America's Schools", Phi Delta Kappan, April 1990. (NCCU)

hooks, bell. "Black Women and Feminism", Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston: South End Press, 1989. (NCCU)

hooks, bell. "Homophobia in Black Communities", Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston: South End Press, 1989. (NCCU)

hooks, bell. "Loving Blackness as Political Resistance", Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992. (NCCU)

hooks, bell. "The Oppositional Gaze", Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992. (NCCU)

hooks, bell. "Overcoming White Supremacy: A Comment", Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston: South End Press, 1989. (NCCU)

hooks, bell. "Pedagogy and Political Commitment", Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston: South End Press, 1989. (NCCU)

hooks, bell. "Revolutionary Renegades", Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992. (NCCU)

Jackson, Francesina. "Incorporating Multiculturalism into the High School Classroom: Lessons from the University Experiences", The High School Journal, October-November 1995. (NCCU)

Jackson, Francesina. "Seven Strategies to Support a Culturally Responsive Pedagogy", Journal of Reading, December 1993-January 1994. (NCCU)

Jackson, Francesina. "Teaching Cultural Diversity in a Teacher Education Program", The High School Journal, February-March 1994. (NCCU)

Kochman, Thomas. "Classroom Modalities", Black and White: Styles in Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. (NCCU) (Tulane)

Kochman, Thomas. "Style", Black and White: Styles in Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. (NCCU)

Kohl, Herbert. "The Myth of Rosa Parks the Tired", Multicultural Education. Fall 1993. (NCCU)

Oakes, Jeannie. "Keeping Track, Part 1: The Policy and Practice of Curriculum Inequality", Phi Delta Kappan, September 1986. (NCCU)

Oakes, Jeannie. "Keeping Track, Part 2: Curriculum Inequality and School Reform", Phi Delta Kappan. October 1986. (NCCU)

Oakes, Jeannie. "Tracking, Inequality and the Rhetoric of Reform: Why Schools Don't Change", Journal of Education. Volume 168, Number 1, 1986. (NCCU)

Pate, Glenn S. "Research on Reducing Prejudice", Social Education, April/May 1988. (NCCU)

Slavin, Robert. "Cooperative Learning and Student Achievement", Educational Leadership. October 1988. (NCCU)

Sleeter, Christine. "White Racism", Multicultural Education. Spring 1994. (NCCU)

Steele, Claude. "Race and the Schooling of Black Americans", The Atlantic Monthly, April 1992. (NCCU)

Summerkorn, Ingrid N. "How Schools Shortchange Girls" Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 1992. (NCCU)

Kilbourne, Jean. (1987). Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Documentary Productions. (NCCU)

Student Video Topics

physical traits and ethnicity ... white students at an HBCU ... racism ... interracial marriage ... sexism ... academic elitism ... homeless people ... self-segregation ... illiteracy ... materialism ... internalized racism ... religion ... campus diversification programs