Affirming Diversity The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education

by Nieto, Sonia; Bode, Patty

• ISBN13: 9780134047232
• ISBN10: 0134047230
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-12-22
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This best-selling text explores the meaning, necessity, and benefits of multicultural education–in a sociopolitical context–for students of all backgrounds.

 

Sonia Nieto and Patty Bode look at how personal, social, political, cultural, and educational factors affect the success or failure of students in today's classroom. Expanding upon the popular case-study approach, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education examines the lives of real students who are affected by multicultural education, or the lack of it. This social justice view of multicultural education encourages teachers to work for social change in their classrooms, schools, and communities. 

Author Biography

Sonia Nieto has dedicated her professional life to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice. With experience teaching students at all levels from elementary grades through graduate school, currently she is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The author of 11 books and numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the recipient of many awards for her research, advocacy, and activism, including the Multicultural Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education, and the Social Justice in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association. She is also the recipient of eight honorary doctorates.

 

Patty Bode combines nearly twenty years in PK-12 classrooms, and a decade in higher education, to inform social justice perspectives in her current work as the principal of Amherst-Pelham Regional Middle School in Massachusetts Public Schools. Patty’s research, teacher leadership and community collaboration focuses on imaginative school structuring and curriculum reinvention. She has received awards for efforts in antiracist and anti-bias curriculum reform and bridging theory and practice in multicultural education, including the 2017 Art Educator of the Year for Supervision and Administration of the Eastern Region by the National Art Education Association, the 2016 Women's Caucus Carrie Nordlund Award in PK-12 Feminist Pedagogy, also from NAEA, and 2005 Multicultural Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education.

Table of Contents

Brief Contents

Part I: Setting the Stage: Multicultural Education Within a Sociopolitical Context

Chapter 1: Understanding the Sociopolitical Context of Schooling

Chapter 2: Defining Multicultural Education for School Reform (by Sonia Nieto)

Part II: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Multicultural Education

Chapter 3: Racism, Discrimination, and Expectations of Students’ Achievement

Chapter 4: Structural and Organizational Issues in Classrooms and Schools

Chapter 5: Culture, Identity, and Learning

Part III: Implications of Diversity for Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society

Chapter 8: Learning from Students

Chapter 9: Adapting Curriculum for Multicultural Classrooms (by Patty Bode)

Chapter 10: Affirming Diversity: Implications for Teachers, Schools, Families, and Communities