An Introduction to Multicultural Education

by Banks, James A.

• ISBN13: 9780205277506
• ISBN10: 0205277500
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

"Cultural Diversity and Education" is designed to help pre-service and in-service educators clarify the philosophical and definitional issues related to pluralistic education, derive a clarified philosophical position, design and implement effective teaching strategies that reflect ethnic and cultural diversity, and prepare sound guidelines for multicultural programs and practices. Provides teachers and administrators with a succinct, yet comprehensive, overview of multicultural education and what it means for classroom teaching. Strong emphasis on curriculum and reform. "For pre-service and in-service school teachers."

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Goals and Misconceptions	1	(12)
Goals	1	(4)
Misconceptions	5	(3)
Progress in Multicultural Education	8	(5)
Dimensions and School Characteristics	13	(8)
The Dimensions of Multicultural Education	13	(4)
Characteristics of a Multicultural School	17	(4)
Curriculum Transformation	21	(14)
Confusion over the Meaning of Multicultural Education	22	(1)
The Meaning and Goals of Multicultural Education	22	(2)
Multicultural Education Is for All Students	24	(1)
Challenges to the Mainstream Curriculum	25	(2)
Challenges to Multicultural Education	27	(1)
The Canon Battle: Special Interests versus the Public Interest	27	(2)
School Knowledge and Multicultural Literacy	29	(1)
A Transformed Curriculum and Multiple Perspectives	30	(2)
Teaching Students to Know, to Care, and to Act	32	(2)
Multicultural Education and National Survival	34	(1)
School Reform and Intergroup Education	35	(15)
Demographic Trends and the Changing Work Force	35	(8)
The Future	43	(1)
Intergroup Education	44	(4)
Guidelines for Reducing Prejudice in Students	48	(2)
Knowledge Components	50	(13)
The Four Knowledge Categories	50	(1)
Multicultural Education Paradigms	51	(2)
Concepts in Multicultural Education	53	(3)
Historical and Cultural Knowledge of Ethnic Groups	56	(7)
Teaching with Powerful Ideas	63	(19)
The Conceptual Approach	63	(1)
The Categories of Knowledge	64	(1)
A Conceptual Multicultural Curriculum	64	(3)
The Spiral Development of Concepts and Generalizations	67	(1)
Social Science and Value Inquiry Skills	67	(2)
Examples of Lessons Organized with Powerful Concepts	69	(4)
Teaching about Revolutions Using Social Science Inquiry	73	(6)
Value Inquiry in the Multicultural Curriculum	79	(2)
Conceptual Teaching and Curriculum Transformation	81	(1)
A Pedagogy for Re-Envisioning America Margaret Smith Crocco Interviews James A. Banks	82	(15)
Multicultural Education: For Accuracy's Sake	82	(1)
Multicultural Education and National Survival	83	(1)
Ideological Impediments, Resistance, and National Activity in Multicultural Education	84	(3)
Making Knowledge Construction Developmentally Appropriate	87	(1)
Multicultural Education and Democratic Values	88	(1)
The Historical Construction of Racist Knowledge	89	(1)
A Conceptual Approach to Multicultural Teaching	90	(1)
Reconstructing America and White Identity	91	(2)
Creating Caring Classroom Communities	93	(1)
Creating an Authentic Unum	94	(3)
Creating Democratic Schools with Cherry A. McGee Banks	97	(8)
Multiple Meanings of School Reform	98	(1)
Schooling in a Pluralistic Democratic Society	99	(1)
The Link between Educational Equality and Society	99	(1)
Education and Citizen Action	100	(2)
Policy Recommendations	102	(3)
Multicultural Benchmarks	105	(10)
A Policy Statement	105	(3)
The School Staff	108	(1)
Staff Attitudes and Expectations	108	(1)
The Curriculum	109	(2)
Teaching Strategies	111	(1)
Teaching Materials	111	(1)
Disproportionality	111	(1)
Parent Involvement	112	(1)
Monitoring	113	(2)
Glossary	115	(3)
Appendix A: The Academic Knowledge Component of Multicultural Education: A Bibliography	118	(3)
Appendix B: Nebraska Multicultural Education Bill	121	(3)
Appendix C: Checklist for Evaluating Informational Materials	124	(3)
Appendix D: A Multicultural Education Evaluation Checklist	127	(2)
References	129	(13)
Index	142