Multicultural Education

Understanding how teachers are currently being prepared to teach students from various backgrounds is a beginning step in the process of creating a model for a comprehensive culturally sustaining teacher education program. Such a program could be a...

The People's Professors: How Cuba Achieved Education for All describes how Cuba managed, in spite of scarce resources, to successfully educate its entire population after the revolution in 1959. It details how illiterate peasants learned to read and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498584456Author Miriam TagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Understanding how teachers are currently being prepared to teach students from various backgrounds is a beginning step in the process of creating a model for a comprehensive culturally sustaining teacher education program. Such a program could be a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498583978Author Lamar L JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934155806Author Amanishakete AniFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint African American ImagesPublisher African American ImagesWeight(grams)...

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...

The achievement, schooling, and the ethnic identities of Asian American students are among the core areas in the field of Asian American education, yet there is much that remains to be uncovered, verified, contradicted, and learned through sound...

This full-color celebration of communities engaged in creative cultural expression profiles nine exemplary grassroots arts projects depicting an intersection of creativity with love of place. Stories range from children building an African-inspired mud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555919757Author Phyllis J. PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Fulcrum Inc.,USPublisher Fulcrum Inc.,USWeight(grams) 771g

This is a book for everyone who teaches. Whether you are responsible for your organization's training and development, you are providing basic education in an elementary school, or you are creating workshops for professional development, this book will...

Sometimes people just don't fit in. They may not be a member of the dominant group; they may not have figured out the norms of the dominant culture, or members of the dominant culture may not realize that the organization's culture is marginalizing. As...

Help students thrive with this systematic approach to culturally responsive instruction! Research shows that students of color learn best in classrooms that reflect their cultural values. This breakthrough book shows educators how to create culturally...

Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider their relationship to whiteness, the lingering shadows of racism, and the value of cultivating a self-reflective practice related to racial identity. The book includes personal testimony from...

Honoring Identities argues that creating culturally responsive learning communities is a process which begins with building community, cultivating certain student and teacher dispositions, nurturing social justice, leveraging the power of talk and...

Exploring White Fragility uses both existing research and anecdotal classroom observations to examine the effects whiteness studies is having on America's schools, and investigates how the antiracist movement to dismantle "white supremacy...

Exploring White Fragility uses both existing research and anecdotal classroom observations to examine the effects whiteness studies is having on America's schools, and investigates how the antiracist movement to dismantle "white supremacy...

How did America become a nation obsessed with race? A Time for Change explores America's beginnings as a "class-based" society, the creation of America's racial consciousness through the invention of the social construction of...

This book provides a step-by-step guide for teachers to implement an action-based curriculum, using young adult literature to engage students with contemporary issues. In addition to reading, ELA core standards including speaking and writing are...

This book provides a step-by-step guide for teachers to implement an action-based curriculum, using young adult literature to engage students with contemporary issues. In addition to reading, ELA core standards including speaking and writing are...

Colleges and universities cannot ignore the increasingly diverse student population in their classrooms, and how a focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion across disciplines trains students in the intercultural awareness they will need in competitive...

An all-in-one toolkit that empowers new teachers to meet the needs of diverse learners In this book, renowned experts give novice teachers the self-confidence and empathy they need to address what may be their greatest challenge: guiding disadvantaged...

Foreword Review's 2015 Indiefab Book of the Year Award Winner! Motivation is to learning as oxygen is to breathing Most experts agree that student motivation and engagement are critical components of teaching and learning. Yet both are vulnerable to...

The mission statement of the Common Core State Standards couldn't be any clearer inadescribing expectations forathe education ofaour nation's youth.The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and...

When done properly, community engagement in academia can have value for all stakeholders. Authentic experiences are more useful for students; faculty can add new knowledge to the field and their own toolbelts; and communities feel their investment has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425814625Author Sharroky HolliePage Count 336Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams) 1486gDimensions(mm)...

Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching helps primary and secondary teachers increase student motivation and achievement, leading to higher levels of student success. The authors focus on how teachers can tap into the inherent knowledge and...

Carl Grant, a leading authority on multicultural education, offers a constructive action plan to help teachers affirm and support their studentsAE diverse individual and group identities while simultaneously developing pedagogies that will enable them to...

The updated edition will offer the most updated, useful, and relevant information on immigration and immigrant students. Rong and Preissle will help educators understand the significance of the demographic data on immigration and what it means to their...

Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education shows how K-12 schooling continues to produce and maintain white supremacist and colonial logics and questions the alternate future of schooling in Canada.It argues that white...

Chapter modules cover common challenges teachers face in a variety of situations, including conducting honest parent-teacher conferences, dealing with discipline issues, responding to confrontational parents, and educating neurodiverse students. Each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807031056Author Theresa PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

The social reality of discrimination in schools is examined in this volume. Through extensive interviews conducted in four inner-city schools in the United States, Louis F Mir[ac]on identifies two forms of discrimination - racial and academic. He then...

This book offers important new insights that will interest scholars of Aboriginal education, teacher education, and Aboriginal leadership, as well as practising teachers, principals, and school board administrators in higher education.Book...

Supporting Indigenous Children's Development challenges and offers an alternative to the imposition of best practices on communities by outside specialists. It tells the story of an unexpected partnership initiated by an Aboriginal tribal council with...

The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education. Volume 1 analyzes the education...

Reinventing Critical Pedagogy offers a fresh perspective from which to read, discuss, and debate recent critical interpretations of schooling and our world at present. The authors build upon past accomplishments of critical pedagogy and critique those...

Immigration and schooling in Ireland addresses the impact of recent rapid social and economic change on the education system. It provides detailed analysis and fascinating insights into the complex and varied responses of principals, teachers, parents...

How can we help African American and Latino students perform better in the classroom and on exams? In Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, Prudence Carter argues that what is needed is a broader recognition of the unique cultural...