Part I. Issues and Concepts
- Chapter 1. Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals
- Chapter 2. Culture is Society and in Educational Practices
- Chapter 3. Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in the Classroom
Part II. Social Class and Religion
- Chapter 4. Social Class and Educational Equality
- Chapter 5. Christian Nation or Pluralistic Culture: Religion in American Life
Part III. Gender
- Chapter 6. Gender Bias: From Colonial America to Today's Classrooms
- Chapter 7. Classrooms for Diversity: Rethinking Curriculum and Pedagogy
- Chapter 8. Transforming the Curriculum: Teaching about Women of Color
Part IV. Race, Ethnicity, and Language
- Chapter 9. Educational Equality for Students of Color
- Chapter 10. Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform
- Chapter 11. The Colorblind Perspectives in School: Causes and Consequences
- Chapter 12. Language Diversity and Education
Part V. Exceptionality
- Chapter 13. Educational Equality for Students with Disabilities
- Chapter 14. School Inclusion and Multicultural Issues in Special Education
- Chapter 15. Recruiting and Retaining Gifted Students from Diverse Ethnic, Cultural, and Language Groups
Part VI. School Reform
- Chapter 16. School Reform and Student Learning: A Multicultural Perspective
- Chapter 17. Families and Teachers Working Together for School Improvement
Appendix: Multicultural Resources
Index
Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, Seventh Edition, is designed to help current and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse in today’s classrooms and schools. This revision 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. Exceptionality is a part the concept of diversity because there are exceptional students in each group discussed in this book.
Organized in six parts, the book discusses specific issues that are highlighted in the multicultural education course and allows students to go directly to the sections of it that will provide them with the information they need.
Key Features
- Leading authors in the field offer their perspectives on Multicultural Education.
- Edited reader providing the most up-to-date research in the field.
New To This Edition
- Chapter 8, a new chapter in the text, describes how race and gender interact as opposed to being separate variables.
- Chapter 9, also new to this edition, examines the role of queer studies as well as sexual and gender minorities in multicultural education.
- The Multicultural Resources in the Appendix have been fully revised and updated.
- A new section on Sexual and Gender Minorities has been added to the Appendix.
- The Glossary has been updated to incorporate new census data as well as developments in the field.
- New co-authors for chapters 14 and 16 bring new insights, information, and perspectives to the chapters.
About the Editors
- JAMES A. BANKS is professor and director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has written or edited more than a dozen books in multicultural education and in social studies education. Professor Banks is past president of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
- CHERRY A. McGEE BANKS is associate professor of education at the University of Washington, Bothell. Professor Banks is associate editor of the Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, contributing author of Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge, and Action, and co-author of March Toward Freedom: A History of Black Americans.
Book Details
- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 7 edition (September 8, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470483288
- ISBN-13: 978-0470483282
- Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.6 x 9.3 inches
List Price: $81.65