Human Diversity in Education : An Integrative Approach

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

• ISBN13: 9780073525976
• ISBN10: 0073525979
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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.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.The text contains introductory case studies that are referred back to in a series of chapter-ending critical incidents that prompt students to apply what they learned in the chapter. 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

Foundations For Multicultural Teaching

Education in a Changing Society

Multicultural Education: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Culture and the Culture-Learning Process

Classrooms and Schools as Cultural Crossroads

Intercultural Development: Considering the Growth of Self and Students

Multicultural Teaching In Action

Creating Classrooms that Address Race and Ethnicity

The Classroom as a Global Community: Nationality and Region

Developing Learning Communities: Language and Learning Style

Religious Pluralism in Secular Classrooms

Developing a Collaborative Classroom: Gender and Sexual Orientation

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

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

The Role of Social Class and Social Status in Teaching and Learning

Assessing Progress: The Quest to Improve Schools for All Children

Glossary

Index

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