Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender, 3rd Edition - Softcover

Sleeter, Christine E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471364770 ISBN 13: 9780471364771

Publisher: Wiley, 1999

Synopsis

This leading text examines the meaning of multicultural education from historical and conceptual perspectives. It provides a thorough analysis of the theory and practice of five major approaches to dealing with race, language, social class, gender, disability, and sexual orientation in today's classrooms.

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From the Publisher:

This text offers a historical and conceptual overview of what multicultural education means, along with a thorough analysis of the theory and practice of five major approaches to dealing with race, culture, language, class, gender, and disability in today's classrooms. Making Choices for Multicultural Education, Second Edition begins with an examination of goals and assumptions related to diversity and their implications for teaching practice. Following this, five individual chapters examine basic theory and current practice related to commonly-used approaches to diversity. Finally, the authors discuss, in detail, the Multicultural/Social Reconstructionist approach they advocate, analyzing its strengths and weaknesses, and sharing their decision-making process. This last chapter helps students understand the questions they must ask themselves before choosing an approach for their own teaching.

From the Back Cover:

The companion text to Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender is: Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender, and Disability, Second Edition. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-471-36445-2 While Making Choices for Multicultural Education explores concepts of race, class, gender, and disability within a framework of five approaches, Turning on Learning illustrates how to transform standard lesson plans into multicultural lesson plans within that same framework of five approaches.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0471364770
• ISBN 13: 9780471364771
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 256