Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability, 4th Edition

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

• ISBN13: 9780471746577
• ISBN10: 0471746576
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This new Fourth Edition contains many lesson plans that cover a variety of subject areas and grade levels (1-12), as well as action research activities that investigate the various dimensions of teaching. Many of the lesson plans are written by actual classroom teachers, and all of them have been examined by practicing teachers. More than simply a "how-to" manual, it is designed to help the teacher or teacher education student teach from a multicultural perspective. Each lesson plan offers a "Before" version (the lesson as it is usually taught) and an "After" version (how the lesson can be improved to "turn on" learning). A discussion explaining why the changes were made follows each lesson plan.

Author Biography

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.

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.

Table of Contents

1. What Turns Your Students On?

2. Teaching the Exceptional and Culturally Different.

3. Human Relations.

4. Single-Group Studies.

5. Multicultural Education.

6. Education that is Multicultural and Social Reconstructionist.

Subject Index.

Lesson Plan Index.