Analysis Of Gowri Parameswaran s Article, Enhancing...

Gowri Parameswaran’s article, Enhancing Diversity Education, is an informative academic journal that highlights the role diversity will play in schools and why teachers will need to implement new ways to involve students in the classroom. Parameswaran is a professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is also a chair of educational studies, who focuses on researching the impact of gender, socioeconomic status, culture on children and adults in North America and India. Parameswaran is currently researching the limited government services for families in poverty. Her article Enhancing Diversity Education was published by Caddo Gap Press on March 2007. Parameswaran explores issues that are currently affecting children when†¦show more content†¦All together, Parameswaran’s article is well-researched as she refers to a variety of sources as she transitions from one topic to the next. She cites information from many different sources to support her overall stance but sometimes uses too many quotations. Although there is not a rule about how many sources one should use in their academic writing, one can argue that Parameswaran’s article is mostly composed of source information, rather than composing her stance with her own voice. Because the use of sources is overpowering, her writing becomes overwhelming for readers because they are not getting the author’s point of view on the issue. Parameswaran states that as students learn about issues of discrimination, they begin to reexamine their values. At times, the reexamination leads students who belong to dominant groups to feel guilty and accuse people who b elong to underrepresented groups of â€Å"reverse racism† (qtd. in Parameswaran 5). An example of a source Parameswaran overuses is information from Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, a psychologist and author who focuses on race in education, and expands on reverse racism. Tautm’s book discusses how students learn about Whites who were and/or are racists. Parameswaran reiterates Tatum’s ideas by stating that most students can name people who hold racist values, but cannot recall any White individuals who fought against racial prejudice. According to Tatum, this is one reason that White