Critical Multicultural Education: Working at the Intersections of Resistance, Restorative Justice, and Revolutionary Change

Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to invite you to contribute an article to a special issue of Education Sciences, an online open access journal published by the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) since 1996. The title of this Special Issue is Critical Multicultural Education: Working at the Intersections of Resistance, Restorative Justice, and Revolutionary Change. We will serve as Guest Co-Editors for this Special Issue, and would very much like each of you to submit an article based on your graduate education/dissertation work/related material alighned with your emerging scholar-activist/actist-scholar interests and profiles. We would like you to situate your article in relevant research and praxis on:

•   The persistent failure of pre-service teacher education to:

1. recruit and retain teacher educators and pre-service teachers of color;
2. prepare critically culturally responsive teacher educators and pre-service teachers;
3. listen to and meaningfully engage Black women educational leaders and their critically culturally responsive educational leadership experiences in U.S. schools.

• The manifestation of “literacy confusion” between white female teachers and especially Black, Latinx, and Indigenous male students and its relationship to the school-to-prison pipeline

• The impact of critical multicultural education on the language dispositions of pre- and in-service teachers and their preparedness to work effectively with students who speak English as a second language

• The educational implications of forced and reverse migration of Chicanx, Mexican American, and Mexican families, and how recent immigrant parents of 1.25, 1.5, 1.75 generation immigrant and U.S. born children navigate the U.S. education system

We would also like you to emphasize your use of critical, indigenous, and emancipatory research methodology and inquiry methods in challenging deficit narratives and revealing and documenting counterstories about historically, persistently, and newly minoritized and marginalized communities in the United States. Finally, we would like you to situate your article, through the use of Critical Race Theory and intersectional analysis, in radical (from the root, grassroots, origins and beginnings) resistance and realization of restorative, transformative, and revolutionary change.

Sincerely,

Prof. Dr. Christine Clark
Dr. Norma Marrun
Guest Editors

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