Multicultural Education: Issues And Perspectives, 5th Edition Update

Banks, James A.

ISBN 10: 0471713635 / ISBN 13: 9780471713630

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Multicultural Education: Issues And Perspectives, 5th Edition Update
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471713635
• ISBN 13: 9780471713630
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 5th Edition Update.
• Condition: New
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  • Education

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Synopsis

Turn challenges into opportunities

With this outstanding collection of chapters by leading scholars and researchers in the field, you can develop the knowledge and skills needed to maximize the opportunities that diversity offers while minimizing its challenges. You’ll explore current and emerging research, concepts, debates, and teaching strategies for educating students from different cultural, racial, ethnic, language, gender, social class, and religious groups.

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Updated with a new feature on High Stakes Testing by Jay P. Heubert and Robert M. Hauser

Turn challenges into opportunities

With this outstanding collection of chapters by leading scholars and researchers in the field, you can develop the knowledge and skills needed to maximize the opportunities that diversity offers while minimizing its challenges. You’ll explore current and emerging research, concepts, debates, and teaching strategies for educating students from different cultural, racial, ethnic, language, gender, social-class, and religious groups.

 Featuring contributions by:

Cherry A. McGee Banks • James A. Banks • Jill Bevan-Brown • Johnnella E. Butler • Rodney A. Cavenaugh • Frederick Erickson • Sara C. Ernsbarger • Donna Y. Ford • Geneva Gay • Carl A. Grant • Beth Harry • Robert M. Hauser • Jay P. Heubert • William L. Heward • Sonia Nieto • Caroline Hodges Persell • Charles H. Lippy • Luanna H. Meyer • Carlos J. Ovando • David Sadker • Myra Sadker • Mara Sapon-Shevin • Christine E. Sleeter • Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault • Janet Ward Schofield

 About the Editors

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.