Human Diversity in Education : An Integrative Approach

by Cushner, Kenneth; McClelland, Averil; Safford, Philip L.

• ISBN13: 9780072486698
• ISBN10: 0072486694
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-19
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

Human Diversity in Education: An Integrative Approach is a research-based, comprehensive text designed to provide an introduction to multicultural education and diversity in society. The text prepares future teachers for the wide diversity of students that they are certain to meet in their classrooms, schools, and communities. It provides an updated and broad treatment of the various forms of human diversity found in today's schools including nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, class, language, sexual orientation, and ability levels. The text maintains a unique approach - a research-based cross-cultural psychological emphasis on how people learn about culture. The text is based on the assumption that it is at the level of the individual teacher where the change that must occur with regard to diversity in schools begins. It assumes that teachers must learn to incorporate issues of diversity in all of their teaching, including, but not limited to their interactions with children, parents, other teachers and the community. In the fourth edition new Case Studies are used to introduce major concepts at the start of chapters and Critical Incidents refer back to the Case Studies throughout the chapter. New coverage includes an emphasis on globalization and a new chapter on intercultural development. Important topics covered include: intercultural development of individuals, globalization and international education, religion in society and schools, gender and sexuality, exceptionality, and diversity with respect to early childhood.

Table of Contents

PART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR MULTICULTURAL TEACHING

Chapter 1: Education in a Changing Society

Chapter 2: Culture and the Culture-Learning Process

Chapter 3: Classrooms and Schools as Cultural Crossroads

Chapter 4: Intercultural Development: Considering the Growth of Self and Students

PART II: MULTICULTURAL TEACHING IN ACTION

Chapter 5: The Classroom as a Global Community: Nationality and Region

Chapter 6: Creating Classrooms that Address Race and Ethnicity

Chapter 7: Developing Learning Communities: Language and Learning Style

Chapter 8: Religious Pluralism in Secular Classrooms

Chapter 9: Developing a Collaborative Classroom: Gender and Sexual Orientation

Chapter 10: Creating Developmentally Appropriate Classrooms: The Importance of Age and Developmental Status

Chapter 11: Creating Inclusive Classrooms: The Ability/Disability Continuum and the Health Dimension

Chapter 12: Assessing Progress: The Importance of Social Class and Social Status

Chapter 13: Tomorrow's Classrooms Today

Glossary

Index

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