This best-selling text offers a balanced approach to issues as it explores today’s multicultural landscape and how to prepare teachers to use equitable and reflective decision making in their multicultural classrooms.
The ninth edition of Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society was designed to introduce prospective teachers to the different cultural groups to which students and their families belong. In this time of extensive standardized testing, we must remember that students are the center of teaching. We have to understand and build on their cultures and experiences to help them learn at the highest levels. In this regard, this book provides background on the diversity of the nation’s students, explores the social and educational issues faced by teachers in diverse classrooms, and guides the reader to think critically and reflectively about their decisions as a teacher in a multicultural education classroom.
Donna M. Gollnickis the Chief Academic Officer of TEACH-NOW, an online teacher education program in Washington, DC. She is co-author with Philip Chinn of "Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society, " which is in its 10th edition and co-author of the textbook "Introduction to the Foundations of American Education, " in its 17th edition. Dr. Gollnick is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). She has been recognized by the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Purdue University and the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California as a Distinguished Alumni Award. AACTE honored her as an Advocate for Justice in 1998.