Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability (Second Edition)

Carl A. Grant and Christine E. Sleeter (Authors)

ISBN 10: 0136511341 / ISBN 13: 9780136511342

Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc./Simon & Schuster/ A Viacom Co., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998

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325 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability (Second Edition)
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc./Simon & Schuster/ A Viacom Co., Upper Saddle River, NJ
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0136511341
• ISBN 13: 9780136511342
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Illustrator: Joseph Mozdzen/Photobank (Cover Photo); Russ Maselli (Cover Deisgn)
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This is a very applied companion text to Making Choices for Multicultural Education by Sleeter & Grant. It is based on the five major approaches to multicultural education; especially on the Social Reconstructionist approach advocated in Making Choices for Multicultural Education. This text educates readers on how to take existing lesson plans and re-work them to become multicultural. A discussion explaining why the changes were made follows each lesson plan.

Synopsis

Featuring a plethora of before and after lesson plans in a wide variety of subjects for grades 1-12 as examples, the authors explain how to change teaching styles towards greater multicultural awareness. Five approaches are elaborated on, including teaching the exceptional and culturally different (building bridges between the capabilities of stude