Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives

There is a wide and growing ethnic, cultural, social-class, and linguistic gap between many of the nations teachers and their students. Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, 9th edition, is designed to help current and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally, racially, linguistically, and social-class diverse classrooms and schools. An important goal of the 9th edition is to help educators attain a sophisticated understanding of the concept of culture and to view race, class, gender, social class, and exceptionality as interacting concepts rather than as separate and distinct.

Table of Contents:
Preface xvii Part 1 Issues and Concepts 1 1 Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals 2 by James A. Banks 2 Culture, Teaching, and Learning 24 by Christina Convertino, Bradley A. Levinson, and Norma González Part 2 Social Class and Religion 41 3 Social Class and Education 42 by Lois Weis 4 Christian Nation or Pluralistic Culture: Religion in American Life 59 by Charles H. Lippy Part 3 Gender 79 5 Gender Bias: From Colonial America to Today’s Classroom 81 by David Sadker and Karen Zittleman 6 Classrooms for Diversity: Rethinking Curriculum and Pedagogy 98 by Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault 7 Understanding and Supporting Gender Equity in Schools 115 by Diane S. Pollard 8 Queer Lessons: Sexual and Gender Minorities in Multicultural Education 132 by Cris Mayo Part 4 Race, Ethnicity, and Language 149 9 Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform 151 by James A. Banks 10 Backstage Racism: Implications for Teaching 171 by Leslie H. Picca and Ruth Thompson-Miller 11 Language Diversity and Schooling 188 by Manka M. Varghese Part 5 Exceptionality 211 12 Educational Equality for Students with Disabilities 213 by Sara C. Bicard and William L. Heward 13 Culturally Responsive Special Education in Inclusive Schools 235 by Luanna H. Meyer, Hyun-Sook Park, Jill M. Bevan-Brown, and Catherine Savage Part 6 School Reform and Classroom Assessment 257 14 School Reform and Student Learning: A Multicultural Perspective 258 by Sonia Nieto and Patty Bode 15 Communities, Families, and Educators Working Together for School Improvement 275 by Cherry A. McGee Banks 16 Classroom Assessment and Diversity 295 by Catherine S. Taylor and Susan B. Nolen Appendix: Multicultural Resources 309 Glossary 315 Contributors 321 Index 325