Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to RACE, CLASS, and GENDER, 5th Edition

by Christine E. Sleeter (Univ. of California-Monterey Bay); Carl A. Grant (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

• ISBN13: 9780471746584
• ISBN10: 0471746584
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

This book offers the educational community a way of thinking about race, language, culture, class, gender, and disability in teaching. The new Fifth Edition incorporates recent literature relevant to ongoing struggles and offers continued reflection on and insight into this evolving field of study and practice. More specifically, this edition includes recent demographics, discussion of equity issues in the context of the accountability movement and particularly No Child Left Behind, a recasting of the deficit ideology, some inclusion of religion, and research that connects culturally situated teaching and learning with student achievement.

Author Biography

Christine Sleeter is Professor Emeritus at California State University-Monterey Bay and Vice President of Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, of the American Educational Research Association.

Carl Grant is Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University Wisconsin-Madison and Chair of the Publication Committee of the American Education Research Association. He is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Illusions of Promise: Business as Usual.

Chapter 2: Teaching the Exceptional and the Culturally Different.

Chapter 3: Human Relations.

Chapter 4: Single-Group Studies.

Chapter 5: Multicultural Education.

Chapter 6: Multicultural Social Justice Education.

Chapter 7: Our Choice: Multicultural Social Justice Education.