Choosing Democracy: A Practical Guide to Multicultural Education

Unlike most other texts for Multicultural Education on the market, this one provides practical and useful teaching strategies and class-tested lesson plans, as well as a foundation for understanding the context of multicultural education.   Choosing Democracy was the first text of its kind to show teachers how to construct a curriculum that is truly democratic, while at the same time meeting the requirements of today’s standard’s based educational environment. 

Most new teachers are not prepared to face the diversity of the classrooms of today.  Nor are they prepared to handle the many challenging issues that will arise in these multicultural and multilingual classes.  This book gives solid and substantial coverage of important issues facing teachers such as classroom management, critical thinking, cooperative learning, assisting English Language Learners, dealing with substantive values, and assessment.  It also teaches educators to formulate a deeper understanding of their own cultural frame of reference in order to develop a second multicultural perspective.

New To This Edition:

• NEW!  Provides ideas for teachers looking to change their curriculum in Chapter 12. 
• NEW!  Includes a new section with a new co-author, (Dr. Francisco Reveles) an expert on gang related behavior and bullying.
• NEW!  Illustrates ways to manage a classroom based on democratic principles and cultural proficiency–makes the text valuable to even the most reluctant reader.
• NEW!  Contains a new section on integrating technology and using the Internet in the classroom.
• NEW!  Features a thoroughly revised Chapter 13–Explains the major efforts at school reform and The No Child Left Behind Act.

Duane Campbell is an  Professor Emeritus  of Bilingual/Multicultural Education at California State University- Sacramento.

He was a teacher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania public schools for three years (1964-1967)  and then a Professor of Education at CSU-Sacramento  for 39 years. Dr. Campbell was the founding Chair of the Department of Bilingual/Multicultural Education and of Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies.   He has developed courses in Social Sciences Education, Democracy,  and Multicultural Education as well as supervised history/social science  student teachers.   Dr. Campbell is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University in History (1969).

He has long been active in labor rights and civil rights efforts.  He blogs at

http://www.choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com.