Multicultural Education

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...

While schools often are framed as places of neutrality and fairness, many American schools have harmed Black children or been silent in the face of their struggles, under-education, and mistreatment. While there are undoubtedly adults in these spaces who...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692972946Author Constance ToueyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Touey and Lucey PublishingPublisher Touey and Lucey PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

The recent increase in immigration patterns in the United States has meant an increase in the number of children whose first language is not English entering American schools. Some reports indicate that as many as one in four students come from families...

This book is essential reading for administrators, teachers, policy makers, and anyone invested in Indigenous education and the survival and success of future generations.Book InformationISBN 9780774880350Author Sheila Carr-StewartFormat PaperbackPage...

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...

One of the most controversial policies in Chinese minority education concerns the so-called inland ethnic minority schools or classes in Han inhabited areas in China. Since 2000, boarding Xinjiang Classes have been established in the eastern cities of...

Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level. Taming the River examines the academic and social dynamics of different ethnic groups during the...

Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities acknowledges the saliency of Blackness in contemporary social formations, insisting that how bodies are read is extremely important. The contributors to this volume elicit or produce both tangible and...

The rapid global spread of the English language has serious linguistic, ideological, socio-cultural, political, and pedagogical implications as it creates both positive interactions and negative tensions between global and local forces. Accordingly,...

This book asks the question; why is it that tourism matters? It looks at how it is we do tourism and learn to be tourists when we are on holiday. Tourism is a dynamic way of being that may facilitate or hinder intercultural exchange. The ways in which we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604598162Author Carter Godwin WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 159g

This book fills an educational void in the school leadership literature as it relates to historical, theoretical, intellectual and cultural understandings among those who prepare individuals for leadership in schools and for those who practice leadership...

Why a new edition of Culturally Proficient Coaching? Why now, especially? Because several polarizing years later, there's even greater urgency for us all to critically examine our attitudes, beliefs, and practices when working with students who look...