Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write
Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building on her groundbreaking work in Writing Superheroes, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of “textual toys” from children’s lives—church and hip–hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays—upon...
Critical Thinking Now
Practical Teaching Methods for Classrooms around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Today’s curricula can (and should) incorporate critical thinking methods because they are the means by which people best understand, learn, and retain higher level concepts. Contrary to what many professional trainers assume, teaching critical thinking is not achieved by shoveling facts at an audience...
Overcoming Educational Racism in the Community College
Creating Pathways to Success for Minority and Impoverished Student Populations
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Overall, nearly half of all incoming community college students “drop-out” within twelve months of enrolling, with students of color and the economically disadvantaged faring far worse. Given the high proportion of underserved students these colleges enroll, the detrimental impact on their communities,...
by Keith Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching provides an engaging, student-friendly guide to the field of foreign language learning and teaching. Aimed at students with no background in the area and taking a task-based approach, this book:
introduces the theoretical and practical...
To Teach
The Journey, in Comics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition. From Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” We meet fellow travelers from...
Australian Indigenous Studies
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
This book provides a guide to research and teaching in an Australian Indigenous Studies that is oriented toward the diverse, contemporary world. Central to this perspective is a sensibility to the intercultural complexity of that world – particularly its Indigenous component – and an awareness...
Schools of Recognition
Identity Politics and Classroom Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001
Schools are places where various cultures and identities must be recognized, yet there has been little research into what it means to recognize another person, identity, or culture. Drawing on the writings of Charles Taylor, Martin Buber, Judith Butler, and Jessica Benjamin, Schools of Recognition...
Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans
Demystifying the Model Minority
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations.
Inclusive Literacy Teaching
Differentiating Approaches in Multilingual Elementary Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Responding to the need to prepare elementary teachers for the increasing linguistic diversity in schools, this book presents key foundational principles in language and literacy development for linguistically diverse students. Readers see these ideas enacted through the journeys of real students as...
Pose, Wobble, Flow
A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book proposes a pedagogical model called “Pose, Wobble, Flow” to encapsulate the challenge of teaching and the process of growing as an educator who questions existing inequities in schooling and society and frames teaching around a commitment to changing them. The authors provide...
Written in Her Own Voice
Ethno-educational Autobiographies of Women in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The contributors to Written in Her Own Voice illuminate how gender and gender roles affect women’s advancement, educational success, and life aspirations. Chapters provide thick, rich descriptions of the authors’ lives, using heuristic and phenomenological inquiry as guiding theoretical frameworks....
Chicanas and Chicanos in School
Racial Profiling, Identity Battles, and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
By any measure of test scores and graduation rates, public schools are failing to educate a large percentage of Chicana/o youth. But despite years of analysis of this failure, no consensus has been reached as to how to realistically address it. Taking a new approach to these issues, Marcos Pizarro goes...
It's Not Because You're Black
Addressing Issues of Racism and Underrepresentation of African Americans in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
This book takes a realistic look at the effects of underrepresentation of African Americans in colleges and universities. It highlights local, state, and national consequences facing America’s educational future as the country becomes more diverse. It also examines the challenges that face Blacks...
Religion in the Classroom
Dilemmas for Democratic Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Dilemmas surrounding the role for religious beliefs and experiences permeate the school lives of teachers and teacher educators. Inspired by the need for teachers and students to more fully understand such dilemmas, this book examines the relationship between religion and teaching/learning in a democratic...