Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice, 6th Edition
By Christine I. Bennett

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Description

Written for pre-service teachers and others new to the field of multicultural education, this text presents interdisciplinary content through primary source material and vignettes of actual teachers and students.



Taking the view that the primary goal of public education in the United States is to foster the intellectual and personal development of all children and youth to their fullest potential, Christine Bennett aims to help prepare teachers who are informed and caring advocates for students from all cultural, racial, socioeconomic, linguistic, and national backgrounds.



Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a curriculum model with six goals and numerous lesson plans illustrating how each goal can be implemented in the classroom. It emphasizes diversity within and across ethnic groups to help teachers understand interactions between students' cultural and individual differences.

New To This Edition

· Chapter 7 is completely re-written and has been re-titled, “Reaching All Learners: Perspectives on Gender, Class and Special Needs.”

· Major content/learning objectives have been added to each chapter.

· Contains updated Census statistics based on the most current information available at time of printing.

· A discussion of the critics of multicultural education has been added to Chapter 1.

· Selected websites and other new resources have been added at the end of each chapter to facilitate additional research.

· Features five new lesson plans – including one in physics, one in mathematics, and one in technology – as well as an organizational chart to illustrate the content area, grade levels, and multicultural curriculum goal for all 26 lessons (Ch. 9).

· Changes in Chapter 8 include a discussion of differentiated instruction and a discussion of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

Features

* Stresses classroom and school practices conducive to integration and equitable student learning, such as strategies based on Gordon Allport's theory of positive intergroup contact and Wilma Longstreet's Aspects of Ethnicity (Chs. 1 & 2).

* Discusses the nature of racism, clarifies the distinctions between individual and institutional racism, and introduces theories of ethnic identity (Ch. 3).

* Focuses on diversity and community in the U.S. rooted in racial, cultural, and individual differences as well as basic human similarities.

* Includes a curriculum model of six goals, a decision-making model, and sample lesson plans for integrating multicultural education in school curriculum (Chs. 8 & 9), a tool widely tested among prospective and practicing teachers.

* Stresses the four major dimensions of multicultural education: 1) Equity pedagogy; 2) Curriculum reform based on inquiry into multiple historical perspectives; 3) Multicultural competence; and 4) Teaching toward social justice, including anti-racist, anti-sexist teaching, and ending all forms of prejudice and discrimination.

* Develops historical perspectives that compare the origins and brief histories of Anglo-European Americans, Jewish Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Muslims, and Arabs (Chs. 4 & 5)

* Provides reality-based classroom vignettes that help make linkages between theory and practice.

* Develops a connection between multicultural and global education.


Table Of Contents

Preface



PART I: The Case for Multicultural Education



1. Multicultural Schools: What, Why, and How

2. The Nature of Culture and the Contexts for

Multicultural Teaching

3. Race Relations and the Nature of Prejudice



PART II: Roots of Cultural Diversity in the United States:

Conflicting Themes of Assimilation and Pluralism



4. European Americans, Jewish Americans, and African

Americans

5. American Indians, Latinos, Asians, Muslims, and

Arabs in the United States



PART III: Individual Differences and Societal Inequities

That Affect Teaching and Learning



6. Learning Styles: Interactions between Culture and

the Individual

7. Reaching All Learners: Perspectives on Gender,

Class, Ethnicity and Special Needs

8. Teaching Concepts and Strategies: The

Development of Positive Classroom Climates



PART IV: Strengthening Multicultural Perspectives in

Curriculum and Instruction



9. Multicultural Curriculum Development:

A Decision-Making Model and Lesson Plans