Multicultural Education: Issues And Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471713635 ISBN 13: 9780471713630

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2004

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This handy reference is designed to help present and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally, racially, and language diverse classrooms and schools. The Fifth Edition reflects current and emerging research, concepts, and debates about the education of students from both genders and from different cultural, racial, ethnic, and language groups. It has been updated throughout and includes the new article High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion and Graduation.

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Updated with a new feature on High Stakes Testing by Jay P. Heubert and Robert M. Hauser

Turn challenges into opportunities

With this outstanding collection of chapters by leading scholars and researchers in the field, you can develop the knowledge and skills needed to maximize the opportunities that diversity offers while minimizing its challenges. You’ll explore current and emerging research, concepts, debates, and teaching strategies for educating students from different cultural, racial, ethnic, language, gender, social-class, and religious groups.

 Featuring contributions by:

Cherry A. McGee Banks • James A. Banks • Jill Bevan-Brown • Johnnella E. Butler • Rodney A. Cavenaugh • Frederick Erickson • Sara C. Ernsbarger • Donna Y. Ford • Geneva Gay • Carl A. Grant • Beth Harry • Robert M. Hauser • Jay P. Heubert • William L. Heward • Sonia Nieto • Caroline Hodges Persell • Charles H. Lippy • Luanna H. Meyer • Carlos J. Ovando • David Sadker • Myra Sadker • Mara Sapon-Shevin • Christine E. Sleeter • Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault • Janet Ward Schofield

 About the Editors

James A. Banks is Russell F. Stark University Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is past President of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a member of the National Academy of Education.

 Cherry A. McGee Banks is professor of education at the University of Washington, Bothell. She is the co-author of Teaching Strategies for the Social Studies: Decision-Making and Citizen Action, and is the author of Improving Multicultural
Education: Lessons From the Intergroup Education Movement.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0471713635
• ISBN 13: 9780471713630
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 468
• Herausgeber: Banks James A., Banks Cherry A. McGee
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar