Theme: Multicultural Education: Past, Present, and Future
Contact:
Katherine Richardson Bruna, Associate Editor (krbruna@iastate.edu)
The editors of the International Journal of Multicultural Education (IJME) want to take advantage of this special 5th anniversary issue to reflect on the state of the field: where it has been, where it is, and where it is going. To do this, we will publish manuscripts that highlight important insights about multicultural education theory, teaching, and research. We are soliciting manuscripts that present a variety of critical perspectives by illuminating educational practices that demonstrate successful approaches to enhancing learners' multicultural knowledge, dispositions, and skills. We have selected an emphasis on the demonstrated effectiveness of multicultural education because we believe that an evidentiary focus is expected by public and professional audiences more than ever in today's high-stakes education policy and thus needs to figure more prominently in its future, especially if multicultural education is to enhance legitimacy within and beyond the accountability discourse of present educational priorities. For this reason, we seek manuscripts that link learner outcomes to particular goals that include, but are not limited to, developing 1) sociohistorical and sociocultural knowledge in service of an affirming orientation toward diversity; 2) constructivist dispositions toward knowledge, teaching, and learning in recognition of the partial, value- and power-laden nature of school curriculum, instruction, and assessment and of the broader cultural pedagogy of society; and 3) change-agent skills of voice and organization for the purpose of active democratic participation. Evidence of these learner outcomes may take different forms, depending on the theoretical and methodological nature of the research inquiry and design. Because of the special emphasis on demonstrated effectiveness, we welcome manuscript submissions that draw on both the qualitative and quantitative educational research traditions. Indeed, the very nature of research activity in multicultural education's past, present, and future is just one example of the important topics we hope to highlight in this exciting anniversary issue.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please follow guidelines and submission procedures for the International Journal of Multicultural Education (www.ijme-journal.org). For full consideration in this special issue, please submit your paper online to the journal by the preferred submission date of April 1, 2012. When submitting your article, please indicate that you want to have your submission considered for this special issue. The anniversary issue will be published in Fall 2012.
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