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What are Parent Stories?
Although multicultural curriculum in teacher
preparation programs has helped “the cultures” of
school accommodate the customs of other cultures;
multicultural education has not permeated pedagogy.
Too often teachers focus on large or historical
cultural traditions in their classrooms and fail to
consider the “personal knowledge” of students that
accompanies those traditions. Therefore, I offer
parent stories as a mechanism for helping teachers
consider the “personal knowledge” of families and
children. (Edwards, 1999, A path to follow)