Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Stories from the Front of the Room
How Higher Education Faculty of Color Overcome Challenges and Thrive in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Research demonstrates that faculty of color in historically white institutions experience higher levels of discrimination, cultural taxation, and emotional labor than their white colleagues. Despite efforts to recruit minority faculty, all of these factors undermine their scholarship, pedagogy, social...
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies
Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP)—teaching...
The Myth of Post-Racial America
Searching for Equality in the Age of Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The Myth of Post-Racial America provides a history of race and racism in the United States. These concepts became integral parts of American society through social, psychological, and political decisions, which are documented so readers can learn about the origin of myths and stereotypes that have...
Faculty Diversity
Removing the Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Why do we see so little progress in diversifying faculty at America’s colleges, universities, and professional schools? This book explores this important question and provides steps for hastening faculty diversity. Drawing on her extensive consultant practice and expertise as well as research and...
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life
Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? In this revelatory new book, Marc Lamont Hill...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This book generates a fresh, complex view of the process of globalization by examining how work, scholarship, and life inform each other among intercultural scholars as they navigate their interpersonal relationships and cross boundaries physically and metaphorically. Divided into three parts, the...
by Berise Therese Heasly
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This book, based on extensive qualitative research carried out among teachers in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, explores a new approach to teaching virtues, values and ethics in the twenty-first century. Drawing on both education studies and philosophy, the author uses inductive methods of analysis...
Relational and Responsive Inclusion
Contexts for Becoming and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Socially unjust circumstances continue to perpetuate inadequate classroom, school and system-level responses to longstanding social justice imperatives, shutting out power-sharing solutions to educational disparities and marginalizing populations of Indigenous and minoritized peoples. To address these...
From the Courtroom to the Classroom
The Shifting Landscape of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
From the Courtroom to the Classroom examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States.
As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a “general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening...
by Jean Rolf
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Susan and her Mom is a true story, beginning in 1950. Jean and Bernie, newlyweds in their early twenties, found themselves dealing with doctors, grandparents and societies scorn of Down syndrome children (then called Mongoloid). This was an era of discarding imperfect children to institutions. Education...
Teaching and Supporting Migrant Children in Our Schools
A Culturally Proficient Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
General approaches to multiculturalism run the risk of overlooking an increasingly diverse student population that deserves special consideration and attention: students from immigrant backgrounds whose families toil the fields in order to provide better educational opportunities for their children....
Building on Resilience
Models and Frameworks of Black Male Success Across the P-20 Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
How do we fix the leaky educational pipeline into a conduit of success for Black males?That the issue is critical is demonstrated by the statistics that only 10% of Black males in the United States are proficient in 8th grade reading, only 52% graduate from high school within four years, and only 35...
Teaching for Equity in Complex Times
Negotiating Standards in a High-Performing Bilingual School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In schools serving high concentrations of bilingual learners, it can be especially challenging for teachers to maintain commitments to equity-minded instruction while meeting the demands of new educational policies, including national standards. This book details how one school integrated equity pedagogy...
by Eugenia Mora-Flores
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Bridge the gap between content and language and put research into practice to instruct English language learners with strategies that meet their needs in language development and literacy. This must-have book reviews the author's experiences as a teacher in a diverse instructional setting and discusses...