Articles

"Cross Cultural Communication - An Essential Dimension of Effective Education," by Orlando L. Taylor
http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/booklets/ccc/
Published by the Mid-Atlantic Equity Center, this online booklet explores cultural differences that lead to communication problems in the classroom. Many other free online publications are available at their site: http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/booklets/

Jenny Evans: On a Journey Towards Her Students, Episode 2, "Learning at Whose Expense," Episode 2, by Valerie Minor and Susan Sandler
http://www.edjustice.org/pdf/jenny_2.pdf
In the second episode of this series about a White teacher (fictitious) attempting to learn about her students from many cultures, Jenny grapples with how to learn in a way that does not exploit people of color.

Print

Working Through Whiteness: International Perspectives, review by Kathy Hytten, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
http://www.tcrecord.org/PrintContent.asp?ContentID=11049
Book Review: The reviewer discusses the need for white teachers to understand their culture and privilege in society. The book is a review of "white" studies and might help teachers or schools assess their "whiteness".

A Classroom of Her Own: How New Teachers Develop Instructional, Professional, and Cultural Competence, Dana Haight Cattani, review by Lisa Kirtman
ISBN: 0761945709, 2002
http://www.josseybass.com/cda/product/0,,0787957631||2554,00.html
"Cattani examines the lives of 6 young white teachers working in California’s urban public schools in hopes of 'highlight[ing] their paths toward instructional competence, professional competence and cultural competence' (p. 2). The teachers have from 1 to 5 years previous teaching experience, and 5 out of the 6 teach in low income and low achieving schools. All are working with children that have economic and/or racial backgrounds that differ from their own. In constructing this book, she vividly allows each case story to fill in a piece of the complex world of teaching."