Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
The Doha Experiment
Arab Kingdom, Catholic College, Jewish Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Gary Wasserman’s decision to head to Qatar to teach at Georgetown sounds questionable, at best. “In the beginning,” he writes, “this sounds like a politically incorrect joke. A Jewish guy walks into a fundamentalist Arab country to teach American politics at a Catholic college.” But he quickly...
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain
Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction
To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation—until...
Transforming Student Travel
A Resource Guide for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Transforming Student Travel calls for a paradigm shift in the student tour industry: educators collaborating to create a student-centered, inquiry-based tour. Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” This resource guide explores...
Loose Canons
Notes on the Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992
Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and...
First Class
The Legacy of Dunbar, Americas First Black Public High School
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public...
Interrogating Privilege
Reflections of a Second Language Educator
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Interrogating Privilege is a welcome combination of personal essays and academic research, blending theory, analysis, and narrative to explore the function and consequences of privilege in second language education.
While teachers’ focus on the learning process and class goals are quite important,...
Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?
Teaching Lessons from the Bronx
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
According to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are inundated with the myth of the “hero teacher”—the one who charges headfirst into dysfunctional inner city schools like a firefighter into an inferno, bringing the student victims to safety through a combination of charisma and innate righteousness....
How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You
Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Engage diverse learners in your classroom with culturally responsive instruction!
This second edition includes new or expanded coverage of Latino students, ELLs, immigrant students, race, and racial identity, and new coverage of standards-based, culturally responsive lesson planning and instruction,...
Teach! Change! Empower!
Solutions for Closing the Achievement Gaps
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Change your practices to close achievement gaps! Develop action plans for promoting culturally relevant curriculum and environments, social-political consciousness, and student involvement.
African American Males in School and Society
Practices and Policies for Effective Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this groundbreaking and timely volume Vernon Polite and James Earl Davis have brought together the perspectives and research findings of eminent scholars who study the educational and social lives of African American males. The result is a volume that brims with new outlooks and viewpoints—a...
by Julia Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Pedagogy - Intercultural Pedagogy, grade: 2,0, University of Kassel (-), course: Introduction to Bilingual Teaching, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction In this paper, I would like to clarify the importance of bilingual teaching as an innovative...
Courageous Conversations About Race
A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
Create a systemwide plan for transforming the district office, schools, and classrooms into places that truly support ALL students achieving their highest levels!
This updated edition of the bestseller continues to explain the need for candid, courageous conversations about race so that educators...
by Mr. Glenn E. Singleton
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Use courageous conversations to build racial equity in your schools and districts!
In this companion to his best-selling book, Glenn Singleton presents specific examples in which racism impedes student success and illustrates how to usher in courageous conversations to ignite systemic transformation....
The Missing Voices in EdTech
Bringing Diversity Into EdTech
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Making tech decisions from a diverse space starts here!
This book offers leaders and teachers a reflective journey into diverse perspectives on technology as it is used and understood in our schools. Through step-by-step strategies and powerful vignettes, Rafranz Davis explores the deep impact...