(NAME-MCE) Call for Articles: Multicultural Perspectives

[Anselmo Villanueva]

September 13, 2007
Call for Articles: Multicultural Perspectives

National Association for Multicultural Education
Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2007

Editors of the Multicultural Perspectives, the journal of the National
Association for Multicultural Education, seek articles for a
forthcoming issue dedicated to language learning in multicultural
education. The issue is intended to provide information for
scholars/practitioners (teachers, counselors, teacher educators, etc.)
on innovative and promising practices and perspectives that focus on
language learning within multicultural education frameworks. Editors
seek manuscripts that examine new possibilities for language learning
in multicultural contexts, where learners are not only acquiring
language proficiencies, but also the ability to navigate multicultural
realms of knowledge, action, interaction, and understanding in the
process of learning language. Some additional topics to consider for
this special issue might include the following:

*multiple literacies and multicultural education;
*language learning for immigrant students with non-parallel formal
schooling experiences;
*language learning and building positive intergroup relations;
*the role of multicultural education in the preparation of language
specialists;
*languages in contact from a multicultural perspective (e.g.,
Spanglish, Chinglish);
*sociolinguistic issues in language learning from a multicultural
perspective;
*language and literacy uses in diverse sociocultural communities;
*funds of knowledge as support for language and literacy learning; and
*ways that multicultural education can inform language learning in
schools.

For more information about the call for articles, including submission
guidelines, contact editors Christian Faltis at cfaltis at asu.edu or
Francisco Rios at frios at uwyo.edu