Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice (6th Edition) - Softcover

Bennett, Christine I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205492134 ISBN 13: 9780205492138

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2006

Synopsis

Written for new teachers, this guide to multicultural education presents interdisciplinary content through primary source material and vignettes of actual teachers and students. 

 

Taking the view that the primary goal of public education in the United States is to foster the intellectual and personal development of all children and youth to their fullest potential, Christine Bennett aims to help prepare teachers who are informed and caring advocates for students from all cultural, racial, socioeconomic, linguistic, and national backgrounds.

 

Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a curriculum model with six goals and numerous lesson plans illustrating how each goal can be implemented in the classroom. It emphasizes diversity within and across ethnic groups to help teachers understand interactions between students' cultural and individual differences.

About this title

From the Back Cover

“I would like to congratulate Ms. Bennett on a wonderful text. It has superb bibliographic information and a nice balance of cultural and individual difference information. I have reviewed many texts for this course and convinced more than one instructor to use this one in our community college setting.”
–Susan K. Yarbrough, Florida Community College at Jacksonville

“I like all the chapters. Some of my students commented that it’s fun and easy to read. The author presents both sides of each issue.”
–Mongkol Tungmala, Weber State University

“The pace of the book enables students to comprehend the material in a meaningful way.”
–Fred Ramirez, California State University, Fullerton

This text provides preservice teachers the historical background, basic terminology, and social science concepts of multicultural education to help them as they enter the field.

Taking the view that the primary goal of public education in the United States is to foster the intellectual and personal development of all children and youth to their fullest potential, Christine Bennett aims to help prepare teachers who are informed and caring advocates for students from all cultural, racial, socioeconomic, linguistic, and national backgrounds.

Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a curriculum model with six goals and numerous lesson plans illustrating how each goal can be implemented in the classroom. It emphasizes diversity within and across ethnic groups to help teachers understand students' cultural and individual differences.

The sixth edition now features five new lesson plans – including one in physics, one in mathematics, and one in technology – as well as an organizational chart to illustrate the content area, grade levels, and multicultural curriculum goal for all 26 lessons (Ch. 9).

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 & Bacon
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0205492134
• ISBN 13: 9780205492138
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 480