Defining and Designing Multiculturalism: One School System's Efforts (Social Context Educ (Dis))

Pepi Leistyna

ISBN 10: 0791455076 / ISBN 13: 9780791455074

Published by State University of New York Pre, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Defining and Designing Multiculturalism: One School System's Efforts (Social Context Educ (Dis))
• Publisher: State University of New York Pre
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791455076
• ISBN 13: 9780791455074
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

An activist group works to bring a multicultural education program to an urban public school system.

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 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.