Synopsis
Do caring, trusting human relationships among teachers and students in multicultural classrooms produce higher levels of achievement? Is simply presenting cultural history, literature, and rituals sufficient for multicultural education? Should schools do more for immigrant students than just teach English? In this book Valerie Pang affirms that teachers must develop comprehensive instructional programs based on caring, culture, and community. Pang takes a unique approach to multicultural education, focusing on the ethics of caring and social justice. Her text is reader-friendly and jargon-free with an upbeat, anecdotal, conversational tone and narrative style in order to directly address and encourage the reader to think about complex issues in multicultural teaching.
"Multicultural Education: A Caring-Centered, Reflective Approach" provides the practical advice needed for mid- to lower-level, more applied teacher education programs. It asks pre-service teachers to identify and challenge their own biases and values regarding multicultural issues before developing a caring, multiculturally-sensitive teaching program --- one that addresses specific multicultural needs, provides individual and particular feedback to students, and builds a strong sense of family in the classroom. Each copy of the text includes the FREE book, "Multicultural Education and the Internet: Intersections and Integrations."
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From the Publisher
CONVERSATIONAL: The text is very accessible and conversational and in part draws on the author's personal primary grade teaching experiences in racially and culturally diverse classrooms. Cartoons are included in every chapter.
REFLECTIVE: The book requires students to reflect on and think about their own cultural biases in order to develop a caring, multiculturally-sensitive habit of teaching.
FREE STUDENT INTERNET GUIDE: Each copy of the text includes the free guide, Multicultural Education and the Internet: Tool, Strategies, and Resources, by Paul Gorski.
COMPING GUIDELINE: Look for multicultural education courses at two-year schools; Pang's caring/social justice focus & lower level differentiate it from Cushner's straightforward, broad Human Diversity in Education and the polemic of Joel Spring's The Intersection of Cultures.
BOOK'S POSITION: Affirms that teachers must develop comprehensive instructional programs based on caring, culture, and community;
focuses on the ethics of caring and social justice.
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