Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity write by Carl A. Grant. This book was released on 2012-08-06. Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity, a hands-on, reader-friendly multicultural education textbook, actively engages education students in critical reflection and self-examination as they prepare to teach in increasingly diverse classrooms. In this engaging text, Carl A. Grant and Christine E. Sleeter, two of the most eminent scholars of multicultural teacher education, help pre-service teachers develop the tools they will need to learn about their students and their students’ communities and contexts, about themselves, and about the social relations in which schools are embedded. Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity challenges readers to take a truly active and ongoing role in promoting equity within education and helps to guide them in becoming highly qualified and fantastic teachers. Features and updates to this much-anticipated second edition include: Reflection boxes that encourage students to actively engage with the text and concepts, along with downloadable templates available on Routledge.com "Putting It into Practice" activities that offer concrete suggestions for really "doing" multicultural work in the classroom Fictional vignettes that illustrate the real issues teacher education students face and the ways their own cultural attitudes can impact their response New coverage of issues pertaining to student achievement, federal and state policy, and socioeconomic connections between the current economy and educational funding A more comprehensive discussion about the different social movements that have affected education in the past and present
Multicultural Education
Multicultural Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multicultural Education write by James A. Banks. This book was released on 2016. Multicultural Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cultural Diversity and Education
Cultural Diversity and Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Diversity and Education write by James A. Banks. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Cultural Diversity and Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now available in paperback, the sixth edition of this definitive text provides students a strong background in the conceptual, theoretical, and philosophical issues in multicultural education from a leading authority and scholarly leader of the field---James A. Banks. In the opening chapter author Banks presents his well-known and widely used concept of Dimensions of Multicultural Education to help build an understanding of how the various components of multicultural education are interrelated. He then provides an overview on preparing students to function as effective citizens in a global world; discusses the dimensions, history, and goals of multicultural education; presents the conceptual, philosophical, and research issues related to education and diversity; examines the issues involved in curriculum and teaching; looks at gender equity, disability, giftedness, and language diversity; and focuses on intergroup relations and principles for teaching and learning. This new edition incorporates new concepts, theories, research, and developments in the field of multicultural education and features: A new Chapter 5, "Increasing Student Academic Achievement: Paradigms and Explanations" provides important explanations for the achievement gap and suggests ways that educators can work to close it. A new Chapter 7, "Researching Race, Culture, and Difference," explains the unique characteristics of multicultural research and how it differs from mainstream research in education and social science. A new Chapter 14, "Principles for Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society" contains research-based guidelines for reforming teaching and the school in order to increase the academic achievement and social development of students from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, language, and gender groups. A new Appendix—"Essential Principles Checklist"—designed to help educators determine the extent to which practices within their schools, colleges, and universities are consistent with the research-based findings described in the book.
Diversity and Education
Diversity and Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diversity and Education write by Michael Vavrus. This book was released on 2014-11-01. Diversity and Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Multiculturalism in Education and Teaching
Multiculturalism in Education and Teaching - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multiculturalism in Education and Teaching write by Carl A. Grant. This book was released on 2014-11-13. Multiculturalism in Education and Teaching available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key article, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. Carl A. Grant has spent the last 35 years researching, teaching, thinking and writing about some of the key enduring issues in multicultural education. He has contributed to a multitude of books and articles, and is former President of the National Association for Multicultural Education. In his selected works, Carl Grant brings together 14 of his key writings in one place. Starting with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of his career and contextualises his selection within the development of the field, the book is divided into three parts: - Race and Educational Equity - Theorizing Multicultural Education - Multicultural Teacher Education. This book not only shows how Carl Grant’s thinking developed during his long and distinguished career, it also gives an insight into the development of the fields to which he contributed.
