The Intersection of Cultures: Multicultural Education in the United States and the Global Economy

by Spring, Joel H.

• ISBN13: 9780072320732
• ISBN10: 0072320737
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-29
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Designed to be used in any course which is devoted wholly or partly to the study of multicultural education in the United States, this text provides a unique theme (intersecting cultures) from which to look at multicultural education issues. It's ongoing use of a few organizing concepts permit in-depth analysis for social foundations and multicultural education courses. The book provides a comprehensive study of the intersections of the dominant U. S. culture, the culture of economic opportunity, dominated cultures, immigrant cultures, school culture, racism, sexism, social class, multicultural curricula, and instructional methods in the United States and the global economy. The study of cultures is filled with rich examples of the lives of the many cultural groups living in the United States. The author uses a problem-posing prose that helps students think about issues of multiculturalism. Each chapter ends with a section on personal reflections which is designed to help students relate multiculturalism to their own lives. The second edition contains two new chapters ("Immigrant Cultures" and "Multiculturalism in the Global Economy") and a wealth of new topics designed to make the revision a comprehensive survey of multiculturalism and of proposed solutions to multiculturalism issues.

Author Biography

Joel Spring is professor of education at the State University of New York - College at New Paltz.

Table of Contents

PART I: MULTICULTURALISM

Chapter 1: What Is the Dominant Culture of the United States?

Chapter 2: Dominated Cultures

Chapter 3: Immigrant Cultures

Chapter 4: Multiculturalism in the Global Economy

PART II: CULTURAL FRAMES OF REFERENCE

Chapter 5: Cultural Frames of Reference: Monoculturalism, Biculturalism, and Ethnic Identity

Chapter 6: Cultural Frames of Reference: History, Gender, and Social Class

Chapter 7: The Intersection of School Culture with Dominated and Immigrant Cultures

PART III: PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

Chapter 8: Teaching About Racism

Chapter 9: Teaching About Sexism

Chapter 10: Teaching and Language Diversity

Chapter 11: Teaching Ethnocentrism

Chapter 12: Conclusion: Cultural Tolerance, Social Empowerment, and the Intersection of Cultures in the Global Workforce and Classroom