Multicultural Education as Social Activism

Multicultural Education as Social Activism

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  • Author: Christine E. Sleeter
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9780791429976
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

Connecting multicultural education with political issues of power and struggle, this book explores what multicultural education means to white people, given the unequal racial power relations in the U.S. and worldwide. It examines connections between race, gender, and social class, particularly as these connections play out for white women. While taking a feminist perspective, the author is also wary of the power white middle class women exercise in defining what counts as gender issues. Throughout the book, Sleeter argues that multicultural education was born in political struggle and can never meaningfully be disconnected from politics. Ultimately the quest for schooling for social justice is a political quest rather than a technical issue.


Multicultural Education in the United States

Multicultural Education in the United States

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  • Author: David E. Washburn
  • Publisher: Inquiry International
  • ISBN: 9780963552129
  • Category : Multicultural education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 156


Transforming the Multicultural Education of Teachers

Transforming the Multicultural Education of Teachers

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  • Author: Michael J. Vavrus
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 9780807742600
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

Recognizing the responsibility institutions have to prepare teachers for today's diverse classrooms, Vavrus shows us how to incorporate transformative multicultural education into teacher education curriculum, pedagogy, and evaluation. Placing race, racism, antiracism, and democracy at the center of his analyses and recommendation, this volume provides: - Concrete structural suggestions for including transformative multicultural education in higher education and K-12 in-service programs. -A multicultural critique of new NCATE accreditation standards for teacher education programs that offers reconceptualized assessment procedures. -The historical roots of transformative multicultural education that incorporates issues of white privilege and racialized color blindness, anti-racist pedagogy, racial identity among teachers, and critical race theory. - A discussion of globalization that emphasizes its contemporary economic effects on social and educatonal inequities.


Multicultural Education

Multicultural Education

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  • Author: Patricia G. Ramsey
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 9780824085582
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 194

The second edition of this source book contains essays and annotations on a number of issues related to multicultural education. The authors define multicultural education as a process-oriented creation of learning experiences that foster an awareness of, respect for, and enjoyment of the diversity of our society and world. Inherent in this definition of multicultural education is a commitment to create a more just and equitable society for all people. This book, then, offers suggestions relevant to the teaching of all children, all teaching and curricular decisions, and every aspect of educational policy.


Evolving Multicultural Education for Global Classrooms

Evolving Multicultural Education for Global Classrooms

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  • Author: Gordon, Richard Keith
  • Publisher: IGI Global
  • ISBN: 1799876519
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

Multicultural education is a construct that has been very useful for many years in harboring sensitivities teachers need in addressing diverse students. Now the discipline needs refreshing. In the global society, the idea of multicultural education, a decidedly Western formation, needs to expand its conceptual boundaries. Salient issues in multicultural education such as individual identities, social justice, and equity are bedrock concerns of multicultural educators. These concepts are considered necessary but not sufficient in shaping an evolving model of multicultural education. The complexity of humans and modern and emerging societies requires a broadened scope of the understanding of contemporary multicultural theory and practice. Evolving Multicultural Education for Global Classrooms addresses multicultural education from a comprehensive viewpoint that acknowledges the historical benefit of multicultural education and recognizes a need to inform the discipline with a broader viewpoint. As most knowledge on multicultural education comes from a Western perspective and the scholarship on the topic is weakening, the chapters in this book present new practices and classroom applications that are internationally transferable. Topics covered include teacher education, social justice, educational equity and inclusion, online education, and cultural sensitivities. This book is ideally intended for teachers, educational theorists, sociologists of education, inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in a fresh global perspective on multicultural education.


Multicultural Educ - Arora

Multicultural Educ - Arora

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  • Author: Arora
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317857003
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 236

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Challenges of Multicultural Education

Challenges of Multicultural Education

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  • Author: Norah Peters-Davis
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317262654
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 182

The voices of college students and teachers vividly enlighten readers about the real-world challenges of multicultural education. Courses on diversity abound in American universities today. But open classroom discussion of racial and gender differences can evoke discomfort as much as new understandings. Negotiating these courses takes a toll on both faculty and students as classrooms become filled with emotion. Based on student and teacher experience in a range of American colleges and universities, this book shows how to meet these challenges and create a truly open and beneficial environment. The authors demonstrate pedagogical strategies and new approaches. A vital resource for teachers, students, college administrators, and university libraries. Contents: Introduction. Dialogue on Diversity Teaching. From Silence and Resistance to Tongues Untied. The Racial Experiment. Starting with a Story and Sharing the Discussion Leading. Irritating, Supporting & Representing. Identity Matters in Class. What Lies Beneath. Conclusion.


Making Choices for Multicultural Education

Making Choices for Multicultural Education

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  • Author: Christine E. Sleeter
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 0470383690
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

Focusing on what multicultural education actually looks like in the classroom, "Making Choices for Multicultural Education, Sixth Edition" encourages all to examine the latest theoretical perspectives on multicultural education, as well as personal beliefs about classroom diversity. The authors show how schools reflect broad patterns of institutional discrimination, and then offer five different approaches to addressing such problems in the classroom.


Multicultural Education in Glocal Perspectives

Multicultural Education in Glocal Perspectives

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  • Author: Yun-Kyung Cha
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9811022224
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

This conceptually rich and empirically grounded book draws upon expertise from a panel of emerging and established international scholars to explore the institutionalization and effect of multicultural education on a global scale. Previous studies of multicultural education have largely ignored the significance of understanding the combination of multiple sociopolitical influences on multicultural education in both policy and practice. Filling this void, this book sheds light on the two main reasons for taking a “glocal” perspective on multicultural education. First, children should be provided with meaningful learning opportunities to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to live in a culturally and ethno-linguistically diverse society, where the distinction between the local and the global is becoming blurred. Second, understanding both the “global grammar” and the “local semantics” of multicultural education helps researchers and policy-makers grasp the whole picture of multicultural education as an evolving social construct and phenomenon. This new book provokes a new round of discussion and research to expand and enrich our inquiry into cultural diversity and educational inclusion.


Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation

Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation

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  • Author: Nadine Dolby
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136345922
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 181

Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation builds on the legacy of social justice multicultural education, while recognizing the considerable challenges of reaching today’s college students. By drawing on breakthrough research in two fields – neuroscience and animal studies – Nadine Dolby argues that empathy is an underlying element of all living beings. Dolby shows how this commonality can provide a scaffolding for building an exciting new approach to developing multicultural and global consciousness, one that has the potential to transform how our students see and relate to the world around them. This book features classroom vignettes and reflections, discussion of research with pre-service teachers on the concept of empathy, and pedagogical suggestions for fostering the new empathy in students. Incorporating discussions of animal emotions, sustainability, and our responsibilities to all living creatures and the planet, Dolby challenges multicultural educators to rethink both curriculum and pedagogy and to begin new and bolder conversations about how empathy for humans, animals, and the planet must be part of a new approach to teaching.