Even the Janitor Is White

Contents: Melissa Marks: Understanding Ourselves, Understanding Others: First-Year Education Majors' Beliefs about Diversity - Kristi Stricker: Start with Their Story: Using Autobiography to Develop Meaningful Multicultural Pedagogy - Michele Phillips: Shagging in the South: Using Cultural Autobiographies to Deconstruct Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Culture - Edric C. Johnson/Hyun Young Kang/Laurie Katz: «What's a Cultural Memoir?» An Action Research Study of Future Teachers' Understandings of Themselves as Cultural Persons - Catherine Gatewood/Kenneth Hall: Making the Uncomfortable Comfortable: How Deliberate Conversation and Interaction among Education Majors Can Bring about More Profound Awareness of Self with Regard to Diversity - Brian Lanahan: Examination of White Racial Identity in the Context of an Elementary Social Studies Methods Course - Russell Binkley: «We Can't Change the World If We Just Keep It to Ourselves»: How Do Preservice Teachers See Teaching for Social Justice When They Participate in a National Program Promoting Student Activism? - Laura L. Marasco: The Home Visit: Apprehension, Assumptions, Acceptance, and Action - Bethany Hill-Anderson/Darryn Diuguid: How a Multicultural Literature Survey Altered Pedagogical Methods and Curriculum Content for Two University Professors - Janie Hubbard: Multicultural Technology Project: A Strategy for Introducing Preservice Teachers to Culturally Responsive Teaching Methods - James K. Daly: Infusing Civic Engagement into the Teacher Education Program: Authentic Experiences in Addressing Diversity - Frans H. Doppen: E Unis Pluribum: The Search for Diversity in Southeast Ohio - M. Gail Hickey: Changing Perspective: Service Learning as Multicultural Pedagogy in a Graduate Teacher Education Program - M. Gail Hickey/Brian Lanahan: Conclusion: Educating for Cultural Diversity in Small Colleges and Universities.

M. Gail Hickey earned her doctorate at The University of Tennessee. She is Professor of Educational Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. She is the author of Bringing History Home: Local & Family History Projects for Grades K-6.
Brian K. Lanahan earned his doctorate at The University of Florida. He is Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education at the College of Charleston. His recent publications include a Social Studies Research and Practice Journal article entitled «Practicing Teachers as Elementary Social Studies Methods Instructors: Issues in Preparing Preservice Elementary Teachers.»