Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability - Softcover

Grant, Carl A.; Sleeter, Christine E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470383704 ISBN 13: 9780470383704

Publisher: Wiley, 2008

Synopsis

With a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, "Turning on Learning, Fifth Edition" shows students how to apply the principles of multicultural education in the classroom. This practical, lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grant’s "Making Choices for Multicultural Education:Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender" features additional lesson plans and new resource material, along with updates of existing lesson plans.

About this title

About the Author

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.

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.

From the Back Cover

How do you practice multicultural education in the classroom?
Put the principles of diversity to work―and turn your students on to learning!

How can a teacher work with diversity, putting theory into practice to excite students and improve their academic achievement? With a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, Turning on Learning, Fifth Edition shows you how to apply the principles of multicultural education in your classroom.

This practical, lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grant’s Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender offers a complete toolbox of ready-to-use lesson plans covering a variety of subject areas for grades K-12. This text features additional lesson plans and new resource material, along with updates of existing lesson plans.

What do we mean by multicultural education? 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.

From the Inside Flap

How do you practice multicultural education in the classroom?
Put the principles of diversity to work—and turn your students on to learning!

How can a teacher work with diversity, putting theory into practice to excite students and improve their academic achievement? With a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, Turning on Learning, Fifth Edition shows you how to apply the principles of multicultural education in your classroom.

This practical, lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grant’s Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender offers a complete toolbox of ready-to-use lesson plans covering a variety of subject areas for grades K-12. This text features additional lesson plans and new resource material, along with updates of existing lesson plans.

What do we mean by multicultural education? 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470383704
• ISBN 13: 9780470383704
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 368