Defining and Designing Multiculturalism
One School System's Efforts
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
352 pages
978-0-7914-8798-3 (ISBN)
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An activist group works to bring a multicultural education program to an urban public school system.
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Persons
Pepi Leistyna is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Presence of Mind: Education and the Politics of Deception and coeditor (with Arlie Woodrum and Stephen A. Sherblom) of Breaking Free: The Transformative Power of Critical Pedagogy.
Content
Foreword
Multiculturalism Revisited: Pepi Leistyna's Politics of the Concrete
Peter McLaren
Introduction
Part One: Theoretically and Historically Contextualizing the Study 1. Critical Mulicultural Education: What is It?
2. A History of Changeton and its Public Schools
3. Facing Oppression: Youth Voices from the Front
4. The Formation of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee (CSC): Its Basic Processes, Functions, and Structures
Part Two: The Work of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee 5. The Development of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee's Mission Statement
6. Professional Development: Raising Consciousness among the Faculty and Staff
7. Curriculum Development and Instruction
8. Diversifying the Faculty and Staff
9. Creating a Partnership between the School and the Public Part Three: The Impact of Multicultural Education in Changeton over the Years 10. In the Aftermath: A Dialogue with Three Changeton Teachers
11. Two Letters to Changeton Educators
12. Challenges for the Future Appendix / Research Methodology
Notes
Bibiliography
Multiculturalism Revisited: Pepi Leistyna's Politics of the Concrete
Peter McLaren
Introduction
Part One: Theoretically and Historically Contextualizing the Study 1. Critical Mulicultural Education: What is It?
2. A History of Changeton and its Public Schools
3. Facing Oppression: Youth Voices from the Front
4. The Formation of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee (CSC): Its Basic Processes, Functions, and Structures
Part Two: The Work of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee 5. The Development of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee's Mission Statement
6. Professional Development: Raising Consciousness among the Faculty and Staff
7. Curriculum Development and Instruction
8. Diversifying the Faculty and Staff
9. Creating a Partnership between the School and the Public Part Three: The Impact of Multicultural Education in Changeton over the Years 10. In the Aftermath: A Dialogue with Three Changeton Teachers
11. Two Letters to Changeton Educators
12. Challenges for the Future Appendix / Research Methodology
Notes
Bibiliography
