Making Choices for Multicultural Education 6e: Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender - Softcover

Sleeter, Christine E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470383690 ISBN 13: 9780470383698

Verlag: J.W., 2008

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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.

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Christine Sleeter is Professor Emeritus at California State University-Monterey Bay and Vice President of Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, of the America Educational Research Association.

Carl Grant is Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University Wisconsin-Madison and Chair of the Publication Committee of the American Education Research Association. He is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education.

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How do we define multicultural education? What do people mean by the term multicultural education? What does it look like in the classroom? The Sixth Edition of Making Choices for Multicultural Education explores the latest theoretical perspectives on race, language, culture, class, gender, and disability in teaching, and encourages you to examine your own personal beliefs about classroom diversity. The authors show how schools reflect broad social patterns of institutional discrimination, and then offer five different approaches to addressing those patterns in the classroom. The Sixth Edition edition:

Incorporates the most recent demographic data and literature relevant to ongoing struggles
Discusses intercultural education as practiced in Europe and Asia and how it differs from multicultural education in the US
Features a stronger global perspective that contextualizes globalization, oppression, and other topics using examples from both theU.S. and other countries
Examines and contextualizes poverty, both personal and group, and its influences on the ideas discussed

And how do we practice it in the classroom?

Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender, and Disability, 5th Edition

Carl A. Grant and Christine E. Sleeter

ISBN: 978-0-470-38370-4

Once you’ve explored the theories in Making Choices for Multicultural Education, put them into practice. Turn to Turning on Learning to find out how to work with diversity in the classroom in order to excite your students and improve their academic achievement. This practical lesson-based companion contains a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, including poverty and globalization.

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How do we define multicultural education?

What do people mean by the term multicultural education? What does it look like in the classroom? The Sixth Edition of Making Choices for Multicultural Education explores the latest theoretical perspectives on race, language, culture, class, gender, and disability in teaching, and encourages you to examine your own personal beliefs about classroom diversity. The authors show how schools reflect broad social patterns of institutional discrimination, and then offer five different approaches to addressing those patterns in the classroom.

The Sixth Edition edition:

Incorporates the most recent demographic data and literature relevant to ongoing struggles
Discusses intercultural education as practiced in Europe and Asia and how it differs from multicultural education in the US
Features a stronger global perspective that contextualizes globalization, oppression, and other topics using examples from both the U.S. and other countries
Examines and contextualizes poverty, both personal and group, and its influences on the ideas discussed

And how do we practice it in the classroom?

Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender, and Disability, 5^th Edition

Carl A. Grant and Christine E. Sleeter

ISBN: 978-0-470-38370-4

Once you’ve explored the theories in Making Choices for Multicultural Education, put them into practice. Turn to Turning on Learning to find out how to work with diversity in the classroom in order to excite your students and improve their academic achievement. This practical lesson-based companion contains a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, including poverty and globalization.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: J.W.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470383690
• ISBN 13: 9780470383698
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 6
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland