
Changing Multiculturalism
New Times, New Curriculum
Open University Press
Published on 16. November 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-335-19483-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book acknowledges the reality that in the late 1990s we live in a new racial context. The reassertion of white supremacy has created a social and educational world where many whites are angry, feel racially victimized, and stand ready to protect their privilege. Such conditions breed fear, hatred, and further violence. Any multicultural education that fails to recognize these conditions will follow the path of irrelevancy - a path too often taken by previous educational reforms. While concepts of cultural difference and diversity are certainly addressed in Changing Multiculturalism, one of its key features involves the analysis of positionality. How has one's race, ethnic, class, and/or gender consciousness been produced? What is the impact of this consciousness production on one's identity? In these ways, the book attempts to move beyond traditional texts in multicultural education. Both critical and practical, this book promises to engage the reader in a critically grounded multiculturalism.
Reviews / Votes
"...an erudite, scholarly and critical account of multicultural education...provides an alternative vision that is streets aheadof the intellectual cul-de-sac in which British debates on multiculturalism and antiracism remain obdurately parked...Kincheloe and Steinberg's book deserves to be widely read." - British Journal of Educational StudiesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-19483-4 (9780335194834)
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Persons
Joe L. Kincheloe teaches Cultural Studies and Pedagogy at Penn State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Teachers as Researchers: Qualitative Paths to Empowerment, Toil and Trouble: Good Work, Smart Workers and the Integration of Academic and Vocational Education, and (with Shirley Steinberg) Thirteen Questions: Reframing Education's Conversation. A well known lecturer and writer, Kincheloe travels frequently with Shirley Steinberg presenting workshops and keynote addresses on popular culture, critical pedagogy and issues of race, class and gender. Kincheloe and Steinberg live in State College, Pennsylvania with their children, Ian and Christine, Meghann, Chaim and Bronwyn. Shirley R. Steinberg teaches at Adelphi University. She is an educational consultant and drama director. Her latest book is Ain't We Misbehavin'? A Pedagogy of Misbehaviour (in press), and she is the co author of The Stigma of Genius: Einstein and Beyond Modern Education. Along with Kincheloe and Aaron Gresson, she is also the editor of Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined. Steinberg and Kincheloe edit the journal Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education and several book series. Her current research involves issues of diversity, popular culture and curriculum. The latest book that Kincheloe and Steinberg have edited is Westview Press's Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood.
Content
Preface
Peter McLaren
What is multiculturalism?
Critical multiculturalism
rethinking educational purpose
Critical multiculturalism
power and democracy
Critical multiculturalism
hegemonym representation, and the struggle for justice
The importance of class in multiculturalism
The importance of gender in multiculturalism
Multiculturalism and the importance of race
So purely white...
whiteness in critical multiculturalism
The curriculum of critical multiculturalism
References
Index.
Peter McLaren
What is multiculturalism?
Critical multiculturalism
rethinking educational purpose
Critical multiculturalism
power and democracy
Critical multiculturalism
hegemonym representation, and the struggle for justice
The importance of class in multiculturalism
The importance of gender in multiculturalism
Multiculturalism and the importance of race
So purely white...
whiteness in critical multiculturalism
The curriculum of critical multiculturalism
References
Index.