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Turning on Learning : Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability (4TH 07 - Old Edition)

by Carl A. Grant

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How do you practice multicultural education in the classroom?

Put the principles of diversity to work—and turn your students on to learning!

How can a teacher work with diversity, putting theory into practice to excite students and improve their academic achievement? With a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, Turning on Learning, Fifth Editionshows you how to apply the principles of multicultural education in your classroom.

This practical, lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grant’s Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Genderoffers a complete toolbox of ready-to-use lesson plans covering a variety of subject areas for grades K-12. This text features additional lesson plans and new resource material, along with updates of existing lesson plans.

What do we mean by multicultural education?

The Sixth Editionof Making Choices for Multicultural Educationexplores the latest theoretical perspectives on race, language, culture, class, gender, and disability in teaching, and encourages you to examine your own personal beliefs about classroom diversity.

Synopsis:

With a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, "Turning on Learning, Fifth Edition" shows students how to apply the principles of multicultural education in the classroom. This practical, lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grant’s "Making Choices for Multicultural Education:Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender" features additional lesson plans and new resource material, along with updates of existing lesson plans.

About the Author

Carl Grantis 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.

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

Table of Contents

'Chapter 1: What Turns Your Students On?

Chapter 2: Teaching the Exceptional and Culturally Different

Chapter 3: Human Relations

Chapter 4: Single-Group Studies

Chapter 5: Multicultural Education

Chapter 6: Multicultural and Social Justice Education

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780471746577
Subtitle:
Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability
Author:
Grant, Carl A.
Author:
Sleeter, Christine E.
Author:
Grant, Carl A.
Publisher:
Wiley
Subject:
Teaching
Subject:
Multicultural Education
Subject:
Administration
Copyright:
Edition Number:
4
Publication Date:
20081103
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
9.24x7.58x.53 in. 1.19 lbs.

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