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Multiculturalism and Learning Style: Teaching and Counseling Adolescents

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Anthropologists will quibble with Griggs and Dunn about whether a particular learning style is the result of culture or a cause of it. The debate would really be about the validity of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and, as such, belongs in another academic arena. Griggs and Dunn have written a good guide for the classroom teacher who wants to understand her/his multicultural students better. The book is a significant contribution to the field because multicultural children are often labeled as having learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and related learning problems when the difficulty is really cultural and is related to (a) the worldview of the culture based on economic and social factors related to being a member of a minority culture, and (b) how education is valued and whether it is relevant to a child's family and home environment. For these reasons, educators can benefit greatly by reading Multiculturalism and Learning Style.

I bought this book for a class. Great info and easy to read.