Culturally Relevant Political Education Using Immigration as a Catalyst for Civic Understanding

11 MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION 10 Wayne Journell is an assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, and Erin L. Castro is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois. Presidential election. Using immigration, a topic that elicited passionate reactions from his students, as a reoccurring theme throughout the semester, Mr. Harrison was able to engage in a type of culturally relevant pedagogy that allowed his students to involve themselves in discussions of the American political process.