Multicultural Education

Only half of our nation's minority students graduate from high school along with their peers. For many groups-Latino, black, or Native American males-graduation rates are even lower. As states hasten to institute higher standards and high-stakes tests in...

In High Schools, Race, and America's Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigourous high school course on race and racism. Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students' engagement with...

Museums are public resources that can offer rich extensions to classroom educational experiences from tours through botanical gardens to searching for family records in the archives of a local historical society. With clarity and a touch of humor, Quinn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464812347Author World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

In this second edition of ""Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society"" - which includes three new chapters - Banks argues that an effective citizenship education helps students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and values needed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538177273Author Ellen B MandinachFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

How can early childhood practitioners best respond to cultural and linguistic diversity and ensure positive interactions with all children and families? Discover the power of Skilled Dialogue, a unique, effective, and field-tested model for interactions...

By 2040, more than 30 percent of students in the United States will be immigrants or the children of immigrants. What factors can help these young people thrive in school, despite the many obstacles they face? And how can school staff best support...

The Culturally Inclusive Educator asks educators to consider what they can do differently to create a welcoming, inclusive, and exciting environment for the 21st century. Based on the author's national research and consulting work, this book examines the...

Muslims, Arabs, and Arab-Americans is based on Author Nawar Shora's time-tested seminar program that has reached law enforcement, the intelligence community, church groups, academic institutions, and private corporations for the past two decades. His...

This is the first book to specifically address the needs of transnational youth, a growing population of students who live and go to school across the United States and other nations including Mexico and different Caribbean islands. The author describes...

This practical resource will assist secondary educators in creating equitable schooling environments for racially diverse youth. Classroom Cultures provides direct insight into the experiences, challenges, and successes of teachers and school leaders who...

This unique book features an array of approaches, strategies, and tools for teaching multiculturally in the early years. The teachers and classrooms portrayed here provide young children with rich educational experiences that empower them to understand...

This book proposes a pedagogical model called "Pose, Wobble, Flow" to encapsulate the challenge of teaching and the process of growing as an educator who questions existing inequities in schooling and society and frames teaching around a commitment to...

In influential and often groundbreaking articles from the Harvard Educational Review, the volume surveys multicultural education's founding arguments and principles, describes its subsequent evolution, and looks toward its future role and impact...

As the United States re-examines its borders and immigration policies, the debate over educating immigrant students in publicly funded schools has divided Americans. What can teachers and immigrant students expect from each other? Laurie Olsen, director...

'Written in a clear, accessible style, this inspirational book is both a practical guide and a survey of the different ways of doing ethnography. Drawing on wide-ranging examples and using classic and contemporary ethnographies, the authors demonstrate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578449449Author Sondai K LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PSE InstitutePublisher PSE InstituteWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974449081Author Joel I PlummerFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Joel PlummerPublisher Joel PlummerWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

How classroom management is viewed in educational settings has undergone major shifts in the past fifty years. The emphasis on "management" has been replaced, with the focus on facilitating an environment that supports diverse students to successfully...

In the 21st century, issues around diversity and social justice have become popular buzz words in the educational discourse. This volume moves beyond "popular buzz" to critically explore issues of diversity and social justice through research studies...

Today's educators are aware of the need for social emotional learning in their classroom and can share the tenets of a culturally responsive pedagogy. However, what they lack is the practical strategies for implementation of these pivotal classroom...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic surged across the globe, several decades of unprecedented population shifts created a worldwide "asylum crisis" that impacted millions of children and the educators that support them worldwide (Pinson & Arnot, 2007)...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic surged across the globe, several decades of unprecedented population shifts created a worldwide "asylum crisis" that impacted millions of children and the educators that support them worldwide (Pinson & Arnot, 2007)...

Excavating Whiteness: How White Teachers' Histories, Communities, and Relationships Frame Their Understandings about Race follows a group of sixteen teachers, fourteen White, one African American, and one Native American teacher as they participated in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338875515Author Gloria Swindler BoutteFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic USWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Sixty-seven years after Brown V. Board of Education, public education is more segregated and entrenched in white supremacy than in the Jim Crow Era of this nation. The authors argue that an equitable education begins when we remove white supremacy from...

Bridging Minds Across the Pacific offers new insight into U.S.-China relations by looking at the far-reaching dynamics of educational exchanges between these two countries. Deng Xiaoping's milestone decision in 1978 to send a large number of Chinese...

The Meaning of Multiraciality: A Racially Queer Exploration of Multiracial College Students' Identity Production provides a comprehensive overview of Multiraciality as a term, experience, and identity using data from a study of Multiracial college...

Turkey's Kurdish question is a long-standing issue which gained special importance after the start of armed conflict between Kurdish insurgents and Turkish security forces. Despite multiple failed attempts to solve the Kurdish question, it remains the...

Political and social expectations are often stymied and distorted by individual and communal identities-creating vastly incongruent and unrelated lived experiences, often within the same context. Democratic Education as Inclusion explores how the...

As the US population grows more and more diverse, how can professionals who work with young children and families deliver the best services while honouring different customs, beliefs, and values? The answers are in the fourth edition of this bestselling...

This book brings together multiple voices from a range of thought leaders in early childhood education to describe both how structural inequities deeply embedded in US society have a negative impact on children's development and learning and how...

What caused one of America's most promising civil rights movements to implode on the eve of change? Knocking at Our Own Door chronicles the life of New York's preeminent but little-studied integrationist, Milton A. Galamison, and his controversial...

Over the past three decades, American higher education has witnessed a shift in demographics which has created a more diverse student body. However, many university campuses remain unsupportive or even hostile to minority faculty and students. This...

Over the past three decades, American higher education has witnessed a shift in demographics which has created a more diverse student body. However, many university campuses remain unsupportive or even hostile to minority faculty and students. This...

Centering Women of Color in Academic Counterspaces offers a rich critical race feminist analysis of teaching, learning, and classroom dynamics among diverse students in a classroom counterspace centered on women of color. Annemarie Vaccaro and Melissa J...

This book focuses on multicultural curriculum transformation in literacy and language arts subject areas. The discussion of each area outlines critical considerations for multicultural curriculum transformation for the area by grade level and then by...

Sixty-seven years after Brown V. Board of Education, public education is more segregated and entrenched in white supremacy than in the Jim Crow Era of this nation. The authors argue that an equitable education begins when we remove white supremacy from...

As the immigrant population grows in countries such as the United States, so does the number of newcomer immigrant students in middle and high schools. Many scholars have noted that the education immigrant adolescents receive has a great bearing on the...