Multicultural Education: Update
Issues and Perspectives
4th Edition
Published on 23. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-0-471-22813-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 emerging research, concepts and debates about the education of students from both genders and from different cultural, racial, ethnic and language groups.
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Edition
4th New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 191 mm
Weight
737 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-22813-4 (9780471228134)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
12/2003
5th Edition
Wiley
€57.67
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Content
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.