Synopses & Reviews
Christine Bennett aims to help prepare teachers who are informed and caring advocates for students from all cultural, racial, socioeconomic, linguistic, and national backgrounds. Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a curriculum model with six goals and numerous lesson plans illustrating how each goal can be implemented in the classroom. It emphasizes diversity within and across ethnic groups to help teachers understand students’ cultural and individual differences. Incorporating research from current sociology, history, and ethnogeography, the author makes key issues like immigration accessible for today’s teachers.
New to This Edition
- Revision and expansion of Part II, “Roots of Ethnic Diversity in the United States: The Conflicting Themes of Assimilation and Pluralism,” from two to four chapters.
- New coverage of contemporary immigration issues in schools (Ch. 8 & 9)
- New case study research by ethnogeographers provides representative examples of the immigrant experiences in the heartland, West Coast, and Southwest.
- Additions to the section on American Indians.
- New Chapter 10, “Teaching and Learning in Linguistically Diverse classrooms.”
- Expansion of and greater emphasis on subjects such as the Achievement Gap, Poverty, and the needs of LGBT youth in Chapter 9, and White Privilege, difficulties with the U.S. Census racial categories, Multiracial Identities, and how race and culture are conceptually different in Chapter 2.
- Substantial updates to Resources for Further Study.
- New MyEducationLab site provides online assignments as extensions of text concepts.
What reviewers are saying:
"The examples and cases are students' favorites. The quality of the information presented [in this text] is excellent."
- Henry M. Codjoe, Dalton State College
“I like the emphasis placed on ethnic and national groups covered in Part II. Other texts don't cover this topic to the extent that this text does. I particularly like her treatment of immigration and how it has impacted our nation and our schools."
-Richard Orem, Northern Illinois University
“More areas of diversity were covered than are found in most texts of this nature. Overall, the writing style is great. It is easy to read, has a narrative feel."
-Anita Jones Thomas, Loyola University - Chicago
Synopsis
Written for new teachers, this guide to multicultural education presents interdisciplinary content through primary source material and vignettes of actual teachers and students.
Taking the view that the primary goal of public education in the United States is to foster the intellectual and personal development of all children and youth to their fullest potential, Christine Bennett aims to help prepare teachers who are informed and caring advocates for students from all cultural, racial, socioeconomic, linguistic, and national backgrounds.
Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a curriculum model with six goals and numerous lesson plans illustrating how each goal can be implemented in the classroom. It emphasizes diversity within and across ethnic groups to help teachers understand interactions between students' cultural and individual differences.
Synopsis
Written for new teachers, this guide to multicultural education presents interdisciplinary content through primary source material and vignettes of actual teachers and students. Taking the view that the primary goal of public education in the United States is to foster the intellectual and personal development of "all" children and youth to their fullest potential, Christine Bennett aims to help prepare teachers who are informed and caring advocates for students from all cultural, racial, socioeconomic, linguistic, and national backgrounds. "Comprehensive Multicultural Education" provides a curriculum model with six goals and numerous lesson plans illustrating how each goal can be implemented in the classroom. It emphasizes diversity within and across ethnic groups to help teachers understand interactions between students' cultural and individual differences.
Synopsis
KEY BENEFIT: Written for new teachers, this guide to multicultural education presents interdisciplinary content through primary source material and vignettes of actual teachers and students. Providing an in-depth focus in key areas as well as a broad overview, Christine Bennett aims to help prepare teachers who are informed and caring advocates for students from all cultural, racial, socioeconomic, linguistic, and national backgrounds.
KEY TOPICS: Provides a teacher-tested curriculum development model that focuses on core values, helping teachers make a stronger case for multicultural perspectives in their curriculums.
MARKET: New and pre-service teachers
Synopsis
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Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a balanced and comprehensive approach to multicultural education overview of the different types of diversity and practical strategies delivered through lesson plans and cases.
A balanced approach for pre-service teachers and others new to the field of multicultural education, this text presents interdisciplinary content through primary source material and vignettes of actual teachers and students. Providing an in-depth focus in key areas as well as a broad overview, Christine Bennett aims to help prepare teachers who are informed and caring advocates for students from all cultural, racial, socioeconomic, linguistic, and national backgrounds. Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a teacher-tested curriculum development model accompanied by 26 lesson plans that focuses on core values, helping teachers make a stronger case for multicultural perspectives in their curriculums. Incorporating research from current sociology, history, and ethno-geography, the author makes key issues like immigration accessible for today’s teachers, emphasizing diversity within and across ethnic groups to help teachers understand interactions between students' cultural and individual differences. '
Table of Contents
Part I. The Case for Multicultural Education
Chapter 1. Multicultural Schools: What, Why, and How
What Is Multicultural Education?
The Core Values in Multicultural Education
Why Is Multicultural Education Essential?
Conditions for Multicultural Schools
The Critics of Multicultural Education
Conclusions
Selected Sources for Further Study
Chapter 2. Culture, Race and the Contexts for Multicultural Teaching
What Is Culture?
What is Race and How Does It Differ from Culture?
What Do We Mean by Ethnic Groups?
What Works Best in 21st Century America: Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Pluralism, or Something Else?
Guidelines for Understanding Cultural Differences in the Classroom: Aspects of Ethnicity
Conclusions
Selected Sources for Further Study
Chapter 3. Race Relations and the Nature of Prejudice
How Prevalent Are Prejudice and Racism Today
What is Prejudice?
What is Racism?
Theories of Ethnic Identity: How Can Teachers Benefit?
The Nature of Stereotypes and Multicultural Teaching
Africa: An Illustration of Unintentional Racism and the Need for Curriculum Reform
Conclusions
Selected Sources for Further Study
Part II. Roots of ethnic Diversity in the United States: The Conflicting Themes of Assimilation and Pluralism
Chapter 4. Immigration and the American Dream: European American and Jewish American Perspectives
Immigration
What Is the American Dream?
Classic and Contemporary Immigration Eras: How Are They Alike and How Are they Different?
European American Perspectives
Jewish American Perspectives
Who Has Assimilated?
Conclusions
Selected Sources for Further Study
Chapter 5. Colonialism, Involuntary Immigration and The American Dream: American Indian and African Americans Perspectives
American Indians
African Americans
Selected Sources for Further Study
Chapter 6. Colonialism, Immigration, and the American Dream: Latino Perspectives
Latinos in the United States: Who are they?
Caribbean Latinos: Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Dominicans
Mexican Americans: How can their history help us understand immigration issues today?
Migrant Farm Workers
Latinos in the Heartland: Are they integrating into U.S. society?
Selected Sources for Further Study
Chapter 7. Contemporary Immigration and the American Dream: Asian, Muslim, and Arab American Perspectives
Who Are the Asian Americans?
Muslims in the United States (with Salman H. Al-Ani)
Arab Americans (with Salman H. Al-Ani)
Conclusions
Selected Sources for Further Study
Part III. Individual Differences and societal inequities That Affect Teaching and Learning
Chapter 8. Learning Styles and Culturally Competent Teaching
What is Learning Style?
Why be concerned about learning styles?
Three Strategies for Discovering Learning Styles
Relationships between Culture and Learning Style
Learning Styles and Teaching Styles
The Promise of Culturally Competent Teaching
Conclusions
Selected Sources for Further Study
Chapter 9. Reaching All Learners: Perspectives on Gender, Class, and Special Needs
Addressing the Achievement Gap
How Does Gender Make a Difference?
How Does Class Make a Difference?
Special Education: The Simultaneity of Race, Class and Gender
Cooperative Learning: Reaching All Learners in Inclusive Schools and Classrooms
Conclusions
Selected Sources for Further Study
Chapter 10. Teaching in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms, by James S. Damico
English Language Learners in U.S. Schools
Bilingual Education
Programs to Meet the Needs of English Language Learners
What We Know about Literacy and Language Learning
Principles and Practices for Working with English Language Learners
Global Englishes and Language Preservation
Conclusions
Selected Sources for Further Study
Part IV. Strengthening Multicultural Perspectives in Curriculum and Instruction
Chapter 11. Multicultural Curriculum Development: A Decision-Making Model and Lesson Plans
Multicultural Teaching
Rethinking the Curriculum
Developing a Course Rationale
The Importance of Fair-Minded Critical Thinking
The Curriculum Model: Goals, Assumptions, and Content
Lesson Plans That Develop Multiple Historical Perspectives
Lesson Plans That Develop Cultural Consciousness
Lesson Plans That Develop Intercultural Competence
Lessons Plans That Combat Racism, Sexism, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Lesson Plans That Develop State of the Planet Awareness
Lesson Plans That Develop Social Action Skills
Conclusions
Selected Sources for Further Study
Chapter Endnotes
Index