
Multicultural and Diversity Education
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In this comprehensive introduction to multicultural education, author Peter Appelbaum reveals that Native American-run schools in the early 19th century produced nearly 100 percent literacy rates-higher among western Oklahoma Cherokees than among whites in nearby Texas or Arkansas. Today, as the country rapidly becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, he discusses how success in diversity education requires that administrators, teachers, and students change the way they look at each other, the curriculum, and the structures and policies that govern schools.
Diversity and Multicultural Education: A Reference Handbook examines the political and educational arguments for and against multicultural education, provides a range of curriculum approaches, describes the dilemmas of assessment, and explores political and legal issues. Also included are a chronology, directories, and bibliographies.
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- Cover
- Multicultural and Diversity Education
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One Overview
- WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL AND DIVERSITY EDUCATION?
- COMPETING AND CONFLICTING VISIONS FOR MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
- Banks-Integrating Multicultural Content
- Christine Sleeter-Cultural/Organizational Approaches
- POLITICAL AND EDUCATIONAL ARGUMENTS "FOR" AND "AGAINST" MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
- Chapter Two Origins of Multicultural Education
- THE DANGER OF REVISIONIST HISTORY
- DECULTURALIZATION, SEGREGATION, AND INTEGRATION
- CHRONOLOGY
- 1780s-Noah Webster's Blue-backed Speller
- 1790-Naturalization Act
- Early-Nineteenth-Century Education
- The 1830s and 1840s
- Early-Twentieth-Century Efforts toward Pluralism and Intercultural Education
- Intercultural and International Education
- The 1928 Merriam Report
- 1954-Brown v. Board of Education
- The Civil Rights Movement and Subsequent Social Movements
- 1965-Immigration Act
- 1960s and 1970s-Afrocentric and Latinocentric Curriculum Movements
- 1974-Lau v. Nichols
- 1975-Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- Education of All Handicapped Children Act
- 1980s-Culture Wars
- 1990s-Teaching the "Codes of Power"
- 1990-National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
- 1990-Americans with Disabilities Act
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- 1990s-White Studies
- 1995-1998-Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed Conference
- 1995-Vivian Gussin Paley
- 1990s-Education for a Global and Technological Society
- 1998-1999 Supreme Court Decisions
- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
- Chapter Three Curricular Approaches
- WHY MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?
- Equity Issues
- Teachers' Frustrations
- Students' Frustrations
- Families' and Communities' Frustrations
- Administrators' Frustrations
- ASSESSMENT FOR MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
- CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
- GROUPING PRACTICES
- CURRICULAR APPROACHES
- Comparing Lesson and Unit Plans
- Teaching the Exceptional and Culturally Different
- Human Relations Approach
- Single-Group Studies
- Multicultural Education (Cultural Democracy)
- Education That Is Multicultural and Social Reconstructionist
- Critical Multiculturalism
- Critical Pedagogy for Diversity Education
- Border Literacies
- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
- Chapter Four Case Studies
- WESTVIEW DISTRICT'S EDUCATION FOR AN INTEGRATED COMMUNITY
- TECHNOLOGY IN A FIFTH-GRADE CLASSROOM
- INTERGENERATION ORCHESTRA OF OMAHA
- TWO DISTRICTS WORKING TOGETHER ON MEDIA AWARENESS
- CAROL CORNELIUS AND CULTURE-BASED CURRICULA
- BOB MOSES AND THE ALGEBRA PROJECT
- NATIONAL MULTICULTURAL INTERPRETER PROJECT
- FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES
- THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED LABORATORY
- TWO-WAY IMMERSION BILINGUAL EDUCATION AT MADAWASKA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND GATEWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, L'ACADIEN DU HAUT ST-JEAN
- TEACHING ABOUT WHITENESS
- THE IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP
- FINAL COMMENTS
- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
- Chapter Five Political and Legal Issues
- DIVERSITY, IDENTITY, AND CITIZENSHIP
- STATE AND NATIONAL FRAMEWORKS AND STANDARDS
- Social Studies and Citizenship Education
- Other Curricular Areas
- Using the Standards to Achieve Multicultural and Diversity Education
- HIGH-STAKES TESTING
- UNIONS
- CHALLENGES TO MULTICULTURALISM
- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
- Chapter Six Barriers to Multiculturalism
- GROUPING STUDENTS
- ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
- RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING
- SCHOOL CULTURE
- SCHOOL GOVERNANCE
- THE IDEOLOGY OF TOLERANCE
- QUESTIONS
- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
- Chapter Seven Associations and Organizations
- Chapter Eight Print and Nonprint Resources
- COMMUNITY-BUILDING RESOURCES
- CURRICULUM RESOURCES
- GENERAL WORKS
- TALKING POINTS
- NONPRINT RESOURCES
- Glossary
- Index
- About the Author
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