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Understanding Human Differences: Multicultural Education for a Diverse America


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For Multicultural Education/Diversity as well as General Education courses. Students develop conceptual understanding about complex and emotionally-charged issues of diversity in today's world. The author uses clear examples, lucid language, and engaging activities to involve students in thinking through fundamental ideas that ground their understanding of diversity. The author investigates three converging elements in his examination of human differences: individual attitudes and behaviors, cultural expectations, and institutional policies and practices. This examination provides the basis for the conceptual organization of the text.

Table of Contents:
Section 1: Individual Attitudes and Interpersonal Relations   1. Understanding Ourselves and Others: Clarifying Values and Language 2. Understanding Prejudice and its Causes 3. Communication, Conflict and Conflict Resolution   Section 2: Cultural Foundations of Oppression in the United States   4. Immigrants and Oppression: The Paradox of Nativism in a Nation of Immigrants 5. Race and Oppression: The Experiences of People of Color in America 6. Religion and Oppression: The Struggle for Religious Freedom 7. Rejecting Oppressive Relationships: The Logic of Cultural Pluralism for a Diverse Society   Section 3: Contemporary Dilemmas for Intergroup Relations   8. Racism: Confronting a Legacy of White Domination of America 9. Sexism: Where the Personal Becomes Political 10. Heterosexism: Transforming Homosexuality from Deviant to Different 11. Classism: Myths and Misperceptions about Poverty 12. Ableism: Disability Does Not Mean Inability   Section 4: The Challenge of Diversity to American Institutions   13. Pluralism in Schools: The Promise of Multicultural Education 14. Pluralism in Society: Creating Unity in a Diverse America   Afterword: How can Understanding Human Differences Resolve Dilemmas in a Multicultural Society?   Glossary Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780205531042
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Weight: 708 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0205531040
  • Publisher Date: 13 Mar 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Multicultural Education for a Diverse America
  • Width: 191 mm


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