Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to RACE, CLASS, and GENDER - Softcover

Sleeter, Christine E.; Grant, Carl A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471746584 ISBN 13: 9780471746584

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Synopsis

This book offers the educational community a way of thinking about race, language, culture, class, gender, and disability in teaching. The new Fifth Edition incorporates recent literature relevant to ongoing struggles and offers continued reflection on and insight into this evolving field of study and practice. More specifically, this edition includes recent demographics, discussion of equity issues in the context of the accountability movement and particularly No Child Left Behind, a recasting of the deficit ideology, some inclusion of religion, and research that connects culturally situated teaching and learning with student achievement.

About this title

About the Author

Christine Sleeter is Professor Emeritus at California State University–Monterey Bay and Vice President of Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, of the American Educational Research Association.

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.

From the Back Cover

Examine the latest theories on multicultural issues in the classroom . . .

Focusing on what multicultural education actually looks like in the classroom, this Fifth Edition of Making Choices for Multicultural Education encourages you to examine the latest theoretical perspectives on multicultural education, as well as your own personal beliefs about classroom diversity. The authors show how schools reflect broad social patterns of institutional discrimination, and then offer five different approaches to addressing those patterns in the classroom.

New Features of the Fifth Edition:

• Addresses multicultural issues related to the current accountability movement.
• Emphasizes the connections between student achievement and the teaching processes.
• Discusses assessment in relation to high–stakes testing.
• Examines curriculum in the context of state content standards.
• Includes updated statistical information, particularly data on discrimination in society at large and in schooling.

. . . Then put multicultural theories into practice!
Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender, and Disability, 4th Edition
Carl A. Grant and Christine E. Sleeter
ISBN: 0–471–74657–6

This practical lesson–based companion contains a wealth of ready–to–use lesson plans covering a variety of subject areas for grade levels K–12.

About the Authors

Christine Sleeter is Professor Emeritus at California State University–Monterey Bay and Vice President of Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, of the American Educational Research Association.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471746584
• ISBN 13: 9780471746584
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 256