Defining and Designing Multiculturalism: One School System's Efforts (SUNY series, The Social Context of Education) - Softcover

Leistyna, Pepi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791455084 ISBN 13: 9780791455081

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2002

Synopsis

Just outside a major urban center on the east coast of the United States an activist group struggled to create a system-wide multicultural education program. Through a seven-year qualitative study, Pepi Leistyna documents and interprets—via a critical pedagogical lens—this group's work with professional development, curriculum and instruction, faculty and staff, and community outreach. Through engaging examples, stories, and participant voices, Leistyna offers a comprehensive, accessible ethnography with implications for others who might attempt similar sorts of systemic change.

About this title

About the Author

Pepi Leistyna is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Presence of Mind: Education and the Politics of Deception and coeditor (with Arlie Woodrum and Stephen A. Sherblom) of Breaking Free: The Transformative Power of Critical Pedagogy.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791455084
• ISBN 13: 9780791455081
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352