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9780471228134

Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, Updated Version, 4th Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780471228134

  • ISBN10:

    0471228133

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-01-01
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Summary

This handy reference is designed to help present and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally, racially, and language diverse classrooms and schools. The Fourth Edition reflects current and emerging research, concepts, and debates about the education of students from both genders and from different cultural, racial, ethnic, and language groups.

Table of Contents

1. Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals.
2. Culture in Society and in Educational Practices.
3. Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in the Classroom.
4. Inner Cities, Affluent Suburbs, and Unequal Educational Opportunities.
5. Religious Diversity and Education Additional Essay: American Muslims: Cousins and Strangers.
6. Gender Bias: From Colonial America to Today's Classrooms.
7. Classrooms for Diversity: Rethinking Curriculum and Pedagogy.
8. Transforming the Curriculum: Teaching about Women of Color.
9. Educational Equality for Students of Color.
10. Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform.
11. The Colorblind Perspective in School: Causes and Consequences.
12. Language Diversity and Education.
13. Educational Equality for Students with Disabilities.
14. School Inclusion and Multicultural Issues in Special Education.
15. Teaching Gifted Students in a Multicultural Society.
16. School Reform and Student Learning: A Multicultural Perspective.
17. Parents and Teachers: Partners in School Reform.
Appendix: Multicultural Resources.
Glossary.
Contributors.
Index

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