Connecting multicultural education with political issues of power and struggle, this book explores what multicultural education means to white people, given the unequal racial power relations in the U.S. and worldwide. It examines connections between race, gender, and social class, particularly as these connections play out for white women. While taking a feminist perspective, the author is also wary of the power white middle class women exercise in defining what counts as gender issues. Throughout the book, Sleeter argues that multicultural education was born in political struggle and can never meaningfully be disconnected from politics. Ultimately the quest for schooling for social justice is a political quest rather than a technical issue.
Connecting multicultural education with political issues of power and struggle, this book explores what multicultural education means to white people, given the unequal racial power relations in the U.S. and worldwide.
Multicultural Teaching in the Standards-Based Classroom
Shows how educators can learn to teach rich, academically rigorous, multicultural curricula within a standards-based environment. The authors have meticulously updated each chapter to address current changes in education policy and practice. New vignettes of classroom practice have been added to illustrate how today's teachers navigate the Common Core State Standards.
"This book offers the educational community a way of thinking about race, language, culture, class, gender, and disability in teaching. The sixth edition incorporates the latest group population demographics and published material to provide the most current information in the field. It introduces a discussion of intercultural and multicultural education along with the key points that distinguishes differences between the two concepts. Readers will also find discussions on globalization and its influences on the key topics presented in the book. Teachers will gain strong insight into this evolving field of study and practice."--Publisher's website.
A multicultural education textbook designed to help teachers-in-training prepare for increasingly diverse classrooms offers a unique approach which encourages the reader to interact with the text through reflection exercises, critiques, and dialogues.
A multicultural education textbook designed to help teachers-in-training prepare for increasingly diverse classrooms offers a unique approach which encourages the reader to interact with the text through reflection exercises, critiques, and ...
This book reframes questions about student diversity by probing the extent to which society serves the interests of all, and by examining the empowerment of members of oppressed groups to direct social change. It examines the empowerment of children who are members of oppressed racial groups, lower class, and female, based on the ideas of multicultural education. A series of ethnographic studies illustrates how such young people view their world, their power to affect it in their own interests, and their response to what is usually a growing sense of powerlessness as they mature. The authors also conceptualize contributions of multicultural education to empowering young people, and report investigations of multicultural education projects educators have used for student empowerment. Issues in teacher education are also discussed.
This book reframes questions about student diversity by probing the extent to which society serves the interests of all, and by examining the empowerment of members of oppressed groups to direct social change.
