Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives Updated Version - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471383791 ISBN 13: 9780471383796

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

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 Fourth 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.

About this title

About the Author

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. Contributors to the Fourth Edition Frederick Erickson Carl A. Grant Christine E. Sleeter Jean Anyon James K. Uphoff David Sadker Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault Johnella E. Butler Geneva Gay Janet Ward Schofield Carlos J. Ovando Rodney A. Cavanaugh Luanna H. Meyer Jill Bevan–Brown Beth Harry Mara Sapon–Shevin Sonia Nieto Also Available The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson–Billings Paperback, ISBN: 0–7879–0338–8 Jossey Bass A Wiley Company www.josseybass.com

From the Back Cover

Strategies, Issues, and Ideas for Today’s Increasingly Diverse Classrooms Fully updated with the latest developments in the field, this Fourth Edition of Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives provides the knowledge present and future educators need to become effective practitioners in today’s increasingly diverse dassrooms and schools. Leading scholars and researchers in the field present current and emerging research, concepts, and debates on the education of students from different cultural, racial, ethnic, and language groups.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0471383791
• ISBN 13: 9780471383796
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Banks James A., McGee Banks Cherry A.