Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education Spring 1999   http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme   Vol. 1, No. 2 Theme: Understanding One's Own Culture Through Cultural Narration

INSTRUCTIONAL IDEAS

Cultural Autobiography

Heewon Chang

This paper describes how the author utilizes the genre of autobiography in her multicultural education class to help students discover cultural influences in their and others' lives through writing and sharing.   She believes this self-reflective process is an important step toward becoming effective multicultural educators.

 

Multicultural Auto-bio Poem

Stefanie Bloom & Jessica Smith

Bloom and Smith have turned an "ordinary" instructional idea of the auto-bio poem to a multicultural lesson by adding lines to the original structure of the poem in order to "embrace" more cultural information on the poet and by utilizing multicultural literature.  They implemented this lesson in a 5th grade classroom.  This paper contains a few samples of autobiographical poems including those of the authors and of two 5th graders.

 

 

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