Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives - Softcover

Banks, James A.; McGee Banks, Cherry A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471149829 ISBN 13: 9780471149828

Publisher: Wiley, 2003

Synopsis

This handy reference is designed to help present and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally, racially, and language diverse classrooms and schools. The Fifth Edition reflects current and emerging research, concepts, and debates about the education of students from both genders and from different cultural, racial, ethnic, and language groups.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Key Benefit: Edited by two leading authors in the field, this contributed book offers a comprehensive view of multicultural education. It is designed to help preservice and inservice teachers address the needs of students from both gender groups, various social classes, religions, and ethnic and cultural groups. Market: For preservice or inservice educators.

About the Author

James A. Banks is Russell F. Stark University Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is past President of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a member of the National Academy of Education.

Cherry A. McGee Banks is professor of education at the University of Washington, Bothell. She is the co-author of Teaching Strategies for the Social Studies: Decision-Making and Citizen Action, and is the author of Improving Multicultural
Education: Lessons From the Intergroup Education Movement.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471149829
• ISBN 13: 9780471149828
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 480