The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities (Multicultural Education Series) - Softcover

Nieto, Sonia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807737828 ISBN 13: 9780807737828

Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 2005

Synopsis

Sonia Nieto makes student learning the primary objective of multicultural education. She draws on a host of research in learning styles, multiple intelligences and cognitive theories to portray the way students learn. Nieto then takes the reader beyond individual learners to discuss the social context of learning, educational equity, the influence of culture on learning and critical pedagogy. Centering on multicultural education as a transformative process, the text includes many reflections of teachers who have undergone this process and whose experiences will be invaluable to other teachers.

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Review:

In lucid and engaging prose, Sonia Nieto communicates how educators and policy-makers can ensure that all children experience personal affirmation and powerful learning at school. This book is essential reading for everybody who cares about education and the future of our increasingly diverse society --Jim Cummins, OISE, University of Toronto

I recommend this book to all educators who want to improve our schools and to create a more caring and humane society. --Professor James A.Banks, Series Editor.

About the Author:

At the time of writing: Sonia Nieto is Professor in the School of Education of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

About this edition

• Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0807737828
• ISBN 13: 9780807737828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224