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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Promoting cultural awareness: An analysis of the involvement of Arkansas elementary school librarians Abstract: Although ethnic diversity has existed in America throughout known history, its recognition was not encouraged until the racial unrest of the 1960s and 1970s aroused interest in the promotion of cultural heritage. As the movement to generate acceptance and appreciation of ethnic and cultural heritage gained momentum in the 1980s, educational leaders initiated programs to facilitate such expression, and the multicultural education movement was born. One such program, Multicultural Reading and Thinking (McRAT), that originated in Arkansas in 1985 was designed to promote cultural awareness and critical thinking through reading. School librarians became involved in McRAT projects, in other cooperative cultural awareness ventures with teachers, and in cultural awareness activities they created themselves. This study examines the level of involvement of Arkansas elementary school librarians in each of these distinct, yet connected, areas. |
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