yes 

Thanks bi Huan, and could you please recommend any?

Michael Byram has done extensive work on Intercultural Competence and Intercultural Communicative Competence in Europe. You might like to check his website. He has a lot of material available on line.

Bridin thank you for the reference. It looks like his model is a popular one! 

My friend's PhD is in this area -

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tjVYeFoAAAAJ&hl=en

http://hud.academia.edu/AJabbar

Hopefully some of his publications are useful

Thank you Elizabeth, your resources were really helpful. As I was particularly looking for research in K-12 teacher education, I found one through your resources:

Villegas, A. M., & Lucas, T. (2002). Preparing culturally responsive teachers rethinking the curriculum. Journal of teacher education, 53(1), 20-32.

Dear Rama

There is considerable literature regarding the approaches of use in the preparation of future health professionals to work more effectively with Indigenous peoples. You may find some details of interest that are translatable to education of future teachers. You could look at the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education web site:

http://www.limenetwork.net.au

Particularly the resources / publication section.

The PhDs of two colleagues could be of interest here too:

Shaun Ewen 2011 Cultural competence in medical education: a university case study available at https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/36708

Suzanne Pitama (2013). “As natural as learning pathology”: The design, implementation and impact of indigenous health curricula within medical schools (PhD). University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand. 

Hope this helps, Dave

Dear Napolean-you make a great point about diversity and creativity! Thank you for your answer.

To clarify-I am not looking for model programs for a diverse classroom-rather training models to teach teachers to become more culturally competent. As a special educator, I see an increasing need for this, as I am sure we all agree that culture greatly influences classroom performance. I shun the idea of problematizing classroom diversity and want to encourage teachers to move away from a deficit model of addressing diversity. 

Dear David, thank you so much for the resources. I briefly looked at the Limenetwork website and was so pleased to see that curriculum development is highly collaborative and leaders and indigenous community members are encouraged to take ownership, rather than 'being told what to do.' 

Dear James, you are right-there is a fair amount of literature across disciplines on this topic and I am not looking for a prescription. As an Indian teacher in an American university, I am deeply aware of how my upbringing [cultural] is influencing my 'discourse' on addressing classroom diversity in the US, and this is precisely the type of self reflection that I would like to encourage them to engage in. Thank you so much for kindly offering to share your ideas over skype! I am eager to learn:)

Vow! Thank you so much for the resources, James. I just emailed you about chatting over skype. 

Absolutely Rama , I really enjoyed reading your responses -I certainly corroborate.  I am working from Australia, not USA and there are many wonderful things happening here, and research worth reading!   

Thank you dear Annabelle! I read some of your abstracts and they totally relate to some of the issues I raised. Indeed there is so much happening in this area across the globe. A much needed topic of conversation.

Wonderful resource list.  I am particularly interested in French-language teaching and how CRRP interfaces with second-language teaching.

If you go through the following references you'll find the answer.

Roux & T. Möller (2002) No problem! Avoidance of cultural diversity in teacher training.South African Journal of Education, Vol 22(3) 184 – 187