Cultural diversity and education : foundations, curriculum, and teaching /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Banks, James A. (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
Edition:Sixth edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Dimensions, history, and goals
  • The dimensions of multicultural education
  • Educating citizens for diversity in global times
  • Multicultural education: history, development, goals, and approaches
  • Conceptual, philosophical, and research issues
  • Culture, ethnicity, and education
  • Increasing student academic achievement: paradigms and explanations
  • Pluralism, ideology, and educational reform
  • Researching race, culture, and difference
  • Curriculum and teaching strategies for decision making and action
  • The stages of cultural identity: implications for curriculum reform
  • A curriculum for empowerment, action, and change
  • Teaching decision, making and social action skills for social change
  • Gender equity, disability, giftedness, and language diversity
  • Gender equity and the social construction of disability and giftedness
  • Teaching for language and cultural differences
  • Intergroup relations and principles for teaching and learning
  • Reducing prejudice in students: theory, research, and strategies
  • Principles for teaching and learning in a multicultural society
  • Appendix: Essential principles checklist.