Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Culture, Relevance, and Schooling
Exploring Uncommon Ground
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
In Culture, Relevance, and Schooling: Exploring Uncommon Ground, Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector, and the contributing authors conceive of culturally relevant and critically minded pedagogies in terms of opening up new spatial, discursive, and/or embodied learning terrains. Readers will traverse multiple...
Practice What You Teach
Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Many teachers enter the profession with a desire to "make a difference." But given who most teachers are, where they come from, and what pressure they feel to comply with existing school policies, how can they take up this charge? Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of...
Developing Cross-Cultural Competence
A Guide for Working with Children and Their Families, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
As the U.S. population grows more and more diverse, how can professionals who work with young children and families deliver the best services while honoring different customs, beliefs, and values? The answers are in the fourth edition of this bestselling textbook, fully revised to reflect nearly a...
Culture or Chaos in the Village
The Journey to Cultural Fluency
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Culture or Chaos in the Village: The Journey to Cultural Fluency seeks to provide a framework for examination of the factors that influence mediation of culture in the minds of teachers. The text moves in a manner that sets the tone for a courageous conversation. It is the intent of this book to facilitate...
Black History
More than Just a Month
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Some of the most interesting people and events of the past often get bypassed in a classroom. This includes a large number of African-Americans who helped build this country. Black History: More Than Just A Month pays tribute to these forgotten individuals and their accomplishments. Some of the people...
The Pedagogy of Pathologization
Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION ALISON PIEPMEIER BOOK PRIZE
Linking powerful first-person narratives with structural analysis, The Pedagogy of Pathologization explores the construction of criminal identities in schools via the intersections of race, disability, and gender....
Girls and Women in STEM
A Never Ending Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Encouraging the participation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) remains as vital today as it was in the 1970s. ... hence, the subtitle: “A Never Ending Story.” This volume is about ongoing advocacy on behalf of the future workforce in fields that lie on...
The Economic Status of the Hispanic Population
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 2010, Hispanics represented one out of every six people in the U.S. (up from one out of eight in 2000), such that the economic status of this population has become increasingly important for the economic direction of the nation. This volume brings together a group of scholars who analyze a variety...
by Bob Fecho
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the story of a white high school English teacher, Bob Fecho, and his students of color who mutually engage issues of literacy, language, learning, and culture. Through his journey, Fecho presents a method of “critical inquiry” that allows students and teachers to take intellectual and...
Linguistically Appropriate Practice
A Guide for Working with Young Immigrant Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This path-breaking book provides a convincing argument for the importance of children's home languages and the benefits of dual- and multi-language learning. A new classroom practice known as Linguistically Appropriate Practice (LAP) offers guidance for those working with young children who arrive...
Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling
Ideologies in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics and approaches to language in education. Carolyn McKinney uses the lens of linguistic ideologies—teachers’ and...
Teaching for EcoJustice
Curriculum and Lessons for Secondary and College Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Teaching for EcoJustice is a unique resource for exploring the social roots of environmental problems in humanities-based educational settings and a curriculum guidebook for putting EcoJustice Education into practice. It provides model curriculum materials that apply the principles of EcoJustice Education,...
Religion in the Primary School
Ethos, diversity, citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Religion and its relationship to schooling is an issue that has become more and more topical in recent years. In many countries, developments such as the diversification of state school sectors, concerns about social cohesion between ethnic and religious groups, and debates about national identity...
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Clashes and Confrontations
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The authors in this edited volume reflect on their experiences with culturally relevant pedagogy_as students, as teachers, as researchers_and how these experiences were often at odds with their backgrounds and/or expectations. Each of the authors speaks to the complexity and difficulty in attempting...