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MULTICULTURAL\INTERCULTURAL  EDUCATION

Alberta Association for Multicultural Education (AAME)
www.albertaassociationformulticulturaleducation.ca

AAME is a provincial affiliate of the Canadian Council for Multicultural and Intercultural Education. It was created as a coordinating body to facilitate the work of educators, community organizations, groups and individuals involved in multicultural and anti-racism issues and projects. It serves as a resource for teachers and schools interested in creating lessons and curricula focused upon multicultural issues.

American Multicultural Publications
www.diversity-books.com
American Multicultural Publications is a leading distributor of books designed for multicultural education in schools, as well as for individuals exploring cultural diversity in American history. They are an important resource for ethnic studies, cultural diversity education, multicultural curriculum and learning American history, culture, society and traditions.

American-Arab Discrimination Committee (ADC)
www.adc.org
ADC is a grassroots civil rights organization that welcomes people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities as members. It produces resources and lesson plans directed at educating people about Arabs and Arab Americans. Many of these materials are directed specifically at middle and high school students, and include lessons on discrimination and stereotyping. There also is a bibliography on the site.

Arab World and Islamic Resources (AWAIRonline)
www.awaironline.org
AWAIRonline provides instructional materials and services to educators who wish to teach about the Arab World and Islam from elementary to the pre-college level. This includes free staff development programs for school districts and the Arab World Studies Notebook which includes 102 pages of duplicate masters including: essays, readings, lesson plans, and other resources. It covers such topics as Muslims Worldwide, Jerusalem, colonial Legacy, the U.S. & the Arab World, Oil, The Gulf War, and The Question of Palestine.

A Brief Illustrated Guide To Understanding Islam
www.islam-guide.com
The guide is is for non-Muslims who would like to understand Islam, Muslims (Moslems), and the Holy Quran (Koran). It includes information, references, bibliography, and illustrations.

Canadian Education Trend Report: Anti-racism and Multicultural Education
www.safehealthyschools.org/whatsnew/racism.htm
This document gives a description of current activities in Canada directed at promoting anti-racism and multicultural education. It details initiatives of the federal government, provincial and territorial governments and NGOs. It provides the reader with access to many programs and resources. It is an important document for those interested in multicultural education.

Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation (CMEF)
www.cmef.ca
CMEF is a non-profit volunteer society founded by a group of educators, communicators and advocates for multiculturism and human rights. It fosters and develops community education activities in collaboration with a number of other Canadian organizations focused upon multicultural and intercultural education.

CanTeach: Promoting Multiculturality
www.canteach.ca/links/linkmulticultpromo.html
CanTeach assists teachers to find resources online. The site places an emphasis upon lesson plans, resources and links that have a Canadian focus. Even so, American global educators will find this a site worth visiting. The Multiculturality site has links to a number of other Canadian programs focused upon multicultural education.

Center for Multicultural Education
http://depts.washington.edu/centerme/home.htm
The Center at the University of Washington, Seattle is directed by James Banks and focuses on research projects and activities designed to improve practice related to equity issues, intergroup relations, and the achievement of all students. The Center also engages in services and teaching related to its research mission. The site features publications and other resources, descriptions of successful multicultural k-12 programs, and links to other multicultural education programs.

The Council on Islamic Education (CIE)
www.cie.org
CIE provides services, resources, and research-based tools such as curriculum materials and professional development courses for teachers. The site also offers free background materials and teaching units rich with primary-source texts and images. Of special interest, is the Teacher’s Pack, a bundle of seven of the organizations most important publications.

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
www.cair-net.org
CAIR seeks to be a leading advocate for justice and mutual respect. It works to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding. It produces and disseminates a number of publications, news stories, and press releases that can be used by teachers to further student understanding of Islam.

Curriculum Guidelines for Multicultural Education
www.socialstudies.org/positions/multicultural
The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) produced the Curriculum Guidelines for Multicultural Education in 1976 and they were revised in 1991. They include: a rationale for pluralism and multicultural education, characteristics of an ethnic and a cultural group, principles of ethnic and cultural diversity, the role of the school, the nature of the learner, the goals of school reform, and curriculum guidelines for multicultural education. This is a valuable document for any school or district attempting to develop or improve its multicultural education program.

Dar al Islam
www.daralislam.org
Dar al Islam develops programs that build bridges. They fall into two groups: those reaching non-Muslims and those bringing Muslims together. In terms of the former, the organization sponsors teacher institutes, workshops for educators, and a speaker’s bureau for schools and other groups. In addition, it provides written materials for use in classrooms.

Diversity Database, University of Maryland
http://www.development.umd.edu/Diversity
The University of Maryland’s Diversity Database is a comprehensive index of multicultural and diversity resources. This includes: general diversity resources (e.g., arts, conferences, media, Internet sites, full-text readings, curricula, etc.) issue specific resources, institutional diversity plans, and diversity reference resources (e.g., definitions and policies).

DiversityStore.com
www.diversitystore.com
The Diversity Store is a for-profit organization. Among other things, it sells instructional materials that can be use in multicultural education programs. Products include posters, books, videos, flags, calendars, and other articles that focus upon various ethnic groups – e.g., Black History Month, Irish American Heritage Month, Asian/Pacific Heritage Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, and Native American Heritage Month, and so forth.

Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education (EMME)
www.eastern.edu/publications/emme
EMME is a free-access e-journal published twice a year by the Education Department of Eastern University for international scholars, practitioners, and students of multicultural education. EMME is committed to providing a forum in which scholarly and practical ideas can be exchanged to strengthen the theories and practices of multicultural education. Uniquely theme-oriented, each issue of EMME contains articles, instructional ideas, and reviews of arts, juvenile and professional books, and multimedia materials on a particular theme.


 

EmTech Technologies – Multicultural Education
www.emtech.net/multicultural_education.html
EmTech Technologies has organized more than 15,000 resources by topics for teachers, students and parents. In terms of multicultural education, there are approximately 125 links organized into several categories: general links, African and African-American, Armenian American, and Asian and Asian Americans. A good online resource for student research.

Friends of Morocco
http://friendsofmorocco.org
Friends of Morocco is an organization of Americans, mostly returned Peach Corps volunteers, with experience in Morocco and Moroccans in American united with an interest in promoting educational, cultural, charitable, social, literary and scientific exchange between Morocco and the United States of America. The site offers a variety of links that provide information about Islam and the Arab world.

Institut Intercuturel de Montreal (IIM)
www.iim.qc.ca/english/apropos/missions.html
IIM is a non-profit research and social action organization, dedicated to promoting an ever-deepening understanding of cultural pluralism, intercultural relations and social change. Its scope is at once local, national, and international. IIM offers a variety of resources for those interested in its mission as well as institutional intercultural training.

Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI)
http://www.intercultural.org/
ICI offers resources for intercultural, cross-cultural, multicultural, international, diversity training and education. ICI also offers a summer institute focused upon the development of intercultural communication, Master of Arts and certificate programs in Intercultural Communication, and a number of inventories that can be use to measure intercultural climates in organizations, including schools.

Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections (IECC)
http://www.iecc.org
IECC is a project of the Center for Civil Society International at the University of Washington, Seattle. It is a mailing list for teachers seeking partner classrooms for international and cross-cultural electronic mail exchanges. The list has been used successfully in the past by Russian schools seeking partners. To use the list, people must first subscribe to IECC as they would any Internet listserv. Then, teachers send a request for a partner classroom. The list is not for people seeking individual pen-pals.

International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE)
www.iaie.org
IAIE brings together professional educators interested in diversity and equity issues in education. This is defined quite broadly, and includes intercultural education, multi-cultural education, anti-racist education, human rights education, conflict-resolution, multilingualism, etc. The IAIE brings together both academics and classroom teachers from a variety of disciplines by organizing workshops, seminars and conferences, and by the publication of the academic journal Intercultural Education.

Katimavik
www.katimavik.org
Katimavik offers young Canadian men and women aged 17 to 21 an opportunity to acquire valuable personal and professional skills through an alternative education program. The program is based on the concept of service learning—learning through volunteer work on community projects to which participants make a significant contribution. For nine months, participants live in mixed groups of 11 francophones and anglophones originating from all regions of Canada.

Korean Culture Center of Los Angeles (KCCLA)
www.kccla.org
KCCLA is operated by the Korean government’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism to provide insights into the rich cultural heritage of Korea. It offers a summer seminar on Korean History and Culture for Middle and High School Teachers. The seminar includes presentations by prominent scholars as well as learning about teaching resources and directly experiencing Korean art, food, and other cultural aspects.

Mesabi Range Community and Technical College
e-mail:r.gawboy@mr.mnsc.edu
The College sponsors a mini pow wow during Native American Month, sponsors an international potluck for students and faculty, brings Fulbright and other international scholars as lecturers at the campus, and has developed a Global Studies Certificate Program.

Minnesota Independent School Forum (MISF)
www.misf.org
MISF is committed to the creation of a truly democratic, pluralistic society that embraces the diversity and interconnectedness of all people. To this end, it fosters the development of inclusive, equitable school communities. It sponsors a Multicultural Education Resource Center that describes multicultural schools and gives examples of one’s in operation, describes multicultural curricula and curriculum models, and provides links to other state and national organizations that provide multicultural materials for schools and teachers including technology resources.

Multicultural Book Review Homepage
www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/homepage.html
This web site features a collection of concise reviews by educators of multicultural literature suitable for use in K-12 classrooms. The site solicits reviews from interested educators, and has links to other multicultural education resources for teachers.

Multicultural Education Consortium of British Columbia (MECBC)
www.mecbc.org
MECBC activities include: promotion of multiculturalism, anti-racism, equity and diversity; training and consultation; advocacy within consortium membership and other educational institutions; information dissemination; and establishing and maintaining partnerships with like minded associations that support similar principles. While the focus is on post-secondary education and community groups, MECBC information and ideas are relevant for teachers and secondary students.

Multicultural Education in Science Teaching
www.wv-hsta.org/mced/default.htm
This web site is maintained by the Health Sciences & Technology Academy (HSTA) sponsored by West Virginia Universities. It is a 9th – 12th grade math and science program which encourages aspirations, opens doors, and empowers minority and under-represented students and rural communities. Through professional development, multicultural education and inquiry teaching are highlighted and HSTA teachers reflect on the best ways to use these strategies in their science classes. The web site contains teaching activities and links to a variety of multicultural resources for math and science teachers.

Multicultural Education Internet Resource Guide
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/Multi.html
This guide of over 50 web sites was created by Dr. Jon Reyhner at Northern Arizona University to assists multicultural educators in locating educational resources on the Internet. This is a very helpful resource for teachers interested in locating multicultural education resources.