Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.S. Curriculum
Author : Wayne Au
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 080777393X
Un-Standardizing Curriculum
Author : Christine Sleeter
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807774626
Book Description
How can teachers learn to teach rich, academically rigorous multicultural curricula under current standardization constraints? In her new book, Christine Sleeter offers a much-needed framework to help teachers take on this challenge. By contrasting key curricular assumptions with those of multicultural education, she reveals the aspects they share as well as the conceptual and political differences between them. Sleeter makes a strong case for what teachers can do to un-standardize knowledge in their own classrooms, while working toward high standards of academic achievement. Features: Detailed portraits of activist teachers committed to multicultural education, including the constraints and challenges they face.Guidance for teachers who want to develop their classroom practice, illustrating the possibilities and spaces teachers have within a standardized curriculum.A field-tested conceptual framework that elaborates on the following elements of curriculum design: ideology, enduring ideas, democratized assessment, transformative intellectual knowledge, students and their communities, intellectual challenge, and curriculum resources.
Multicultural Curriculum
Author : Ram Mahalingam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136052224
Book Description
Multicultural Curriculum is a collection of original essays brought together to develop new theories and meaningful praxis to build a new paradigm for teaching multiculturalism in today's classroom. The impressive list of contributors shows how the current epistemological and pedagogical practices that are designed to forward multiculturalism actually serves to essentialize cultures--the antithesis of what multicultural education is designed to accomplish. The editors offer alternative theories, classroom teaching methods, and policies that are designed to promote true cultural understanding and equality.
Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Social Studies and Civic Education
Author : Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner
Publisher : Foundations of Multicultural E
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781793602145
Book Description
This book focuses on multicultural curriculum transformation in social students and civic education subject areas. The discussion of each area outlines critical considerations for multicultural curriculum transformation for the area by grade level and then by eight organizing tools, including content standards, relationships with and among students and their families, and evaluation of student learning and teaching effectiveness. The volume is designed to speak with PK-12 teachers as colleagues in the multicultural curriculum transformation work. Readers are exposed to "things to think about," but also given curricular examples to work with or from in going about the actual, concrete work of curriculum change. This work supports PK-12 teachers to independently multiculturally adapt existing curriculum, to create new multicultural curriculum differentiated by content areas and grade levels, and by providing ample examples of what such multicultural transformed social studies and civic education curricula looks like in practice.
Cultural Diversity and Education
Author : James A. Banks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317222466
Book Description
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.
Developing Multicultural Teacher Education Curricula
Author : Joseph M. Larkin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791425930
Book Description
This book explores how to make teacher preparation more multicultural.
Women of Color and the Multicultural Curriculum
Author : Liza Fiol-Matta
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781558610835
Book Description
A A A The product of 13 curriculum projects that involved several hundred educators nationwide, this volume provides faculty and administrators with a guide to multicultural curricular change-especially with respect to women. While womenA represent over halfA of the college students on campus, they are still represented only minimally in the allegedly "mainstream" curriculum. Women of color are far less visible in the curriculum than white women. A A A Both the process and the results of a Ford Foundation funded project are presented here in a format that allows browsing and promotes reading straight through. The volume is divided into three major sections, the first of which highlights the actual process of faculty transformation and administrative support essential to curricular changes as it occurred on two of the participating campuses, U.C.L.A. and George Washington University. Extensive multidisciplinary faculty development syllabi are provided. A A A Section Two conatins 37 transformed undergraduate course syllabi for courses in sociology, American history and literature, and more, with brief essays describing professors' encounters with teaching the new texts. Section Three is an invaluable interdisciplinary guide to teaching about Puerto Rican women, prepared by a team of scholars at SUNY, Albany. It provided information about Puerto Rican women inside and outside Puerto Rico, as well as teaching strategies for integrating such information into the traditional curriculum. A A A This volume shows that essential educational change-to meet the diversity of U.S. students-may be somewhat slower than one would wish, and more difficult, but it is complex, challenging, and intellectually exciting.
Un-Standardizing Curriculum
Author : Christine E. Sleeter
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807758078
Book Description
In this second edition of her bestseller, Christine Sleeter and new coauthor Judith Flores Carmona show how educators can learn to teach rich, academically rigorous, multicultural curricula within a standards-based environment. The authors have meticulously updated each chapter to address current changes in education policy and practice. New vignettes of classroom practice have been added to illustrate how today’s teachers navigate the Common Core State Standards. The book’s field-tested conceptual framework elaborates on the following elements of curriculum design: ideology, enduring ideas, democratized assessment, transformative intellectual knowledge, students and their communities, intellectual challenges, and curriculum resources. Un-Standardizing Curriculum shows teachers what they can do to “un-standardize” knowledge in their own classrooms, while working toward high standards of academic achievement. Book Features: Classroom vignettes to help teachers bridge theory with practice in the context of commonly faced pressures and expectations. Guidance for teachers who want to develop their classroom practice, including the possibilities and spaces teachers have within a standardized curriculum. Attention to multiple subject areas and levels of schooling, making the book applicable across a wide range of teacher education programs. A critique of the tensions between school reforms and progressive classroom practice.
Multicultural Education
Author : Patricia G. Ramsey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780824085582
Book Description
The second edition of this source book contains essays and annotations on a number of issues related to multicultural education. The authors define multicultural education as a process-oriented creation of learning experiences that foster an awareness of, respect for, and enjoyment of the diversity of our society and world. Inherent in this definition of multicultural education is a commitment to create a more just and equitable society for all people. This book, then, offers suggestions relevant to the teaching of all children, all teaching and curricular decisions, and every aspect of educational policy.
Beyond Heroes and Holidays
Author : Enid Lee
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Anti-racism
ISBN : 9781878554178
Book Description
Interdisciplinary manual analyzes the roots of racism through lessons and readings by numerous educators. Issues such as tracking, parent/school relations, and language policies are addressed along with readings and lessons for pre- and in-service staff development. All levels.
