Comprehensive multicultural education: Theory and practice - Softcover

Christine I. Bennett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205085873 ISBN 13: 9780205085873

Publisher: Allyn and Bacon, 1986

Synopsis

This book provides readers with the historical background, basic terminology, and social science concepts of multicultural education. Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a curriculum model with six goals and numerous lesson plans illustrating how each goal can be implemented in the classroom. The book includes conceptual frameworks from the social sciences and historical backgrounds. Both theory and practice in the book present interdisciplinary content through primary source material and vignettes of actual teachers and students, and encourage interactions between readers' cultural and individual differences. For anyone interested in multicultural education, teaching in a pluralistic society, and/or foundations of American culture and society.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Provides a comprehensive approach to multicultural education that focuses on ethnic diversity and community in the U.S., i.e. diversity rooted in racial, cultural, and individual differences, as well as basic human similarities and connections. Global perspectives within multicultural education are emphasized and four themes are stressed; equitable classroom environments, intercultural competence, development of a multicultural curriculum, and anti- racist/anti-sexist teaching.

About the Author

Christine Iverson Bennett is Professor Emerita in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Indiana University.  She earned her B.A. in sociology at Northwestern University, her M.A. in social studies education at Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in social science education with specializations in ethnic studies at the University of Texas in Austin.  Prior to her doctoral studies she taught high school social studies in San Jose and Los Angeles.  During her thirty-one years at Indiana University, Professor Bennett developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in multicultural education; and initiated and directed The Teacher as Decision Maker Program, The Research Institute on Teacher Education, and Project TEAM, a program to recruit and support students from underrepresented minorities. She also served as director of Indiana University’s Exchange Program with Hangzhou University and conducted seminars for faculty at Al-Ain University in the United Arab Emirates and for visiting international scholars at Indiana University. Her research publications focus on the impact of multicultural social studies, classroom climates in desegregated schools, racial inequities in school discipline, racial issues in higher education, and multicultural teacher education.  She can be reached at bennettc@indiana.edu.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allyn and Bacon
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205085873
• ISBN 13: 9780205085873
• Binding: Paperback