Choosing Democracy: A Practical Guide to Multicultural Education - Softcover

Campbell, Duane E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013351370X ISBN 13: 9780133513707

Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div, 1995

Synopsis

This text is appropriate for any course in Multicultural Education or Multicultural Curriculum. This book takes a strong social reconstructionist approach in advocating democratic school reform. It focuses on empowerment and provides detailed descriptions of teaching strategies to achieve it. Based on the experiences of hundreds of future teachers in multicultural education courses, this text offers concrete teaching alternatives that can be used in the classroom to respond to the issues of racism, sexism, gender, and class bias.

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From the Back Cover

Key Benefit: Unique in both approach and content, this book prepares prospective teachers for the challenging situations they will face in our increasingly multicultural/multilingual diverse classrooms and schools. It shares the insights of teachers who have developed new cross-cultural perspectives, new pedagogies and curriculum, new strategies and programs to respond to the continuing educational crises of their students. Presents a social reconstructionist point of view that argues that multicultural education is necessary for the survival of our democracy, and that the concept of “democratic opportunity” should be expanded to include cultural democracy and equal education opportunity. Key Topics: Balances a critical Theory analysis of the problems of racism, classism, gender discrimination, prejudice, poverty, and school failure with practical strategies for teachers to use in responding to these problems as they encounter them each day in their multicultural and multilingual classrooms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 013351370X
• ISBN 13: 9780133513707
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 381