Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to RACE, CLASS, and GENDER [Paperback]

Christine E. Sleeter (Author), Carl A. Grant (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0471746584 | ISBN-13: 978-0471746584 | Publication Date: January 10, 2006 | Edition: 5

This book offers the educational community a way of thinking about race, language, culture, class, gender, and disability in teaching. The new Fifth Edition incorporates recent literature relevant to ongoing struggles and offers continued reflection on and insight into this evolving field of study and practice. More specifically, this edition includes recent demographics, discussion of equity issues in the context of the accountability movement and particularly No Child Left Behind, a recasting of the deficit ideology, some inclusion of religion, and research that connects culturally situated teaching and learning with student achievement.

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This text offers a historical and conceptual overview of what multicultural education means, along with a thorough analysis of the theory and practice of five major approaches to dealing with race, culture, language, class, gender, and disability in today's classrooms. Making Choices for Multicultural Education, Second Edition begins with an examination of goals and assumptions related to diversity and their implications for teaching practice. Following this, five individual chapters examine basic theory and current practice related to commonly-used approaches to diversity. Finally, the authors discuss, in detail, the Multicultural/Social Reconstructionist approach they advocate, analyzing its strengths and weaknesses, and sharing their decision-making process. This last chapter helps students understand the questions they must ask themselves before choosing an approach for their own teaching. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Examine the latest theories on multicultural issues in the classroom . . .

Focusing on what multicultural education actually “looks like” in the classroom, this Fifth Edition of Making Choices for Multicultural Education encourages you to examine the latest theoretical perspectives on multicultural education, as well as your own personal beliefs about classroom diversity. The authors show how schools reflect broad social patterns of institutional discrimination, and then offer five different approaches to addressing those patterns in the classroom.

New Features of the Fifth Edition:

• Addresses multicultural issues related to the current accountability movement.
• Emphasizes the connections between student achievement and the teaching processes.
• Discusses assessment in relation to high-stakes testing.
• Examines curriculum in the context of state content standards.
• Includes updated statistical information, particularly data on discrimination in society at large and in schooling.

. . . Then put multicultural theories into practice!
Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender, and Disability, 4th Edition
Carl A. Grant and Christine E. Sleeter
ISBN: 0-471-74657-6

This practical lesson-based companion contains a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans covering a variety of subject areas for grade levels K-12.

About the Authors

Christine Sleeter is Professor Emeritus at California State University-Monterey Bay and Vice President of Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, of the American Educational Research Association.

Carl Grant is Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University Wisconsin-Madison and Chair of the Publication Committee of the American Education Research Association. He is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 5 edition (January 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471746584
• ISBN-13: 978-0471746584
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Christine E. Sleeter, PhD. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982) is Professor Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. Formerly a high school learning disabilities teacher in Seattle, she had also been a faculty member at Ripon College in Wisconsin and at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She has also been a visiting scholar at Victoria University in New Zealand, the University of Washington, Seattle, and San Francisco State University. She is currently president of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education and multicultural teacher education; she has published over 100 articles in edited books and journals. She has been invited to speak in most U.S. states as well as several countries. Awards for her work include the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award, the American Educational Research Association Division K Legacy Award, the California State University Monterey Bay President's Medal, and the National Association for Multicultural Education Research Award.

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This text was required for my multicultural education (K-8 Teaching Class). It has been extremely helpful. The chapters are long (40+ pages each), so it takes a while to get through it. The content is disheartening and motivating all at the same time. I also saved over $[...] by ordering it on www.amazon.com and it was shipped within 3 business days.