@article{ref1,
title="Integrating diversity and cultural education into literacy",
journal="Journal of language and literacy education",
year="2006",
author="Pan, Pamela",
volume="2",
number="1",
pages="19-31",
abstract="Most educators understand that our students come from diversebackgrounds. Yet what to do with this diversity remains a keyissue. Traditional teaching approaches and curriculumdisservice both the mainstream and minority students byfocusing mainly on European American perspectives,marginalizing minority students, and depriving all students ofopportunities to learn from other experiences. This paperexamines a teacher's role in turning diversity into powerfultools of transformation. When teachers integrate diversity andcultural education into literacy instruction, the classroombecomes a space of exploration, in reading and writing, and incultural knowledge and cross-cultural communication. To dothis, teachers need to become familiar with students'cultures, revise curriculum, infuse diverse texts, becomefacilitator of inter-group dialogue (Clark, 2002), unmarkwhiteness, and understand how being white shapes people'slives (McIntosh,1988). Such integration empowers students touse literacy as a tool of transformation.Available (open access):http://www.coe.uga.edu/jolle/2006_1/integrating.pdf<p />",
language="",
issn="1559-9035",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}