Description
As Executive Managing Editor of Multicultural Teaching and Learning (MLT), an international, well-known refereed journal, I have my finger on the pulse of teaching and learning research as related to meeting the educational and emotional needs of all students from a multicultural perspective. The continued success of the journal relies heavily on my performance, meeting the expectations of the job and communicating with external stakeholders to improve and maintain MLT's image and national and international reputation. To date, I have published five issues. Issue 8(1) focused on providing scholars with a voice, who have used their works to challenge traditional thinking and paradigms. Issue 8(2) was a special issue, entitled Exploring New Educational Horizons: African American Males and Hip Hop Culture. This issue invited scholars to discuss new ways of solving problems confronting today's children and youth. Issue 9(1), also a special issue, entitled Improving Learning and Behavioral Outcomes for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners, invited scholars to discuss learning and behavioral outcomes that can be improved for students who are culturally and linguistically different. Issue 9(2), entitled Seeing Beyond the Eyes in Valuing Human Differences, invited scholars to reveal divergent issues and perspectives that are connected to racial, cultural, and linguistic diversities at all educational levels. Issue 10(1), entitled Everything has Everything to Do with Everything: Advancing Multicultural Discourse, intended to advance multicultural discourse through the education of any learner in spite of his/her ability, disability, gift, talent, behavior, national origin, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, culture, language, style, value, or personal idiosyncrasy. Issue 10(2), which is to be published in September 2015, will be a special issue entitled White Multicultural Voices in Southern Universities: An Overview. This topical issue will present articles that highlight the authors’ personal growth in becoming multicultural as well as how it has affected their work in higher education. This issue is unique because all of the authors will be presenting their stories through a white cultural lens. This issue is also significant because all of the authors work in Southern Universities where multiculturalism is expected, due to the large racial and ethnic diversity of the southern population. Through these white voices, readers may begin to understand the challenges and processes that these authors experienced on their road to becoming multicultural. The effort needed to publish six issues in the last two and a half years has been enormous but extremely rewarding. This position certainly brings notoriety and credibility to me as well as acclaim to my institution. It is my intention to continue to serve as the Executive Managing Editor of MLT to provide a platform for scholars and educators to discuss multicultural issues that impact teaching and learning of children and youth.| Period | 2012 → … |
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| Held at | Multicultural Learning and Teaching |