Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society (with MyEducationLab), 8/E by Donna M. Gollnick and Phillip C. Chinn

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Are you prepared to teach in today’s diverse classrooms? The eighth edition of this well-respected text now provides you the ability to apply what you have learned regarding multicultural education. This edition also provides real classroom video to help you relate to, understand, and celebrate eight micro-cultures that you may encounter in your own future classrooms:  ethnicity and race, class and socioeconomic status, gender and sexual orientation, exceptionality, language, religion, geography, and age.

Explore Your Beliefs

  • ABC News Video Insights – Watch 14 ABC News videos that explore current issues in multicultural education today including five new topics on: immigration, zero tolerance policies, evolution and creationism, social cruelty and bullying, as well as the Civil Rights Era.
  • Focus Your Cultural Lens: Debate –This feature asks you to take a position on controversial school issues with for and against statements for your consideration.
  • Pause to Reflect – Questions and activities promote self-awareness and ownership of your past experiences and help you consider how they can influence your current and future teaching practice in diverse classrooms.
Multiculturalism Today: Experience and Apply
  •  Critical Incidents — Engaging features of real-life and hypothetical situations that occur in schools and classrooms today encourage you to examine your feelings, attitudes, and reactions.

NEW! This book now comes integrated with MyEducationLab, a unique site for you and your students where the classroom comes to life. Icons throughout the text integrate online features such as authentic in-class video footage, interactive simulations, rich case studies, and teacher and student artifacts designed specifically to support Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society, 8e — all at no extra cost to your students! Click here to learn more about MyEducationLab.

Multiculturalism Today: Experience and Apply

  • NEW! Observe and Learn: Lessons in Action. This feature directs readers to video of nine multicultural lesson plans to life in real classrooms across the country illustrating how chapter concepts can be applied in the classroom. Each of the nine videos are integrated into the Gollnick/Chinn MyEducationLab course at www.myeducationlab.com.

  • Critical Incidents – Engaging features of real-life and hypothetical situations that occur in schools and classrooms today encourage you to examine your feelings, attitudes, and reactions.

  • NEW! Licensure Test Preparation – Prepare for your professional licensure exam by answering sample test items, similar in format to state licensure tests, that help you consider issues raised in the chapter.
  • NEW! MyEducationLab.com Book-Specific Media Support-- Through authentic in-class video footage, research articles, real classroom artifacts, and more, MyEducationLab prepares you for your teaching career. In your textbook look for the www.MyEducationLab.com logo in the margins of the text and follow the simple instructions to access. MyEducationLab for this text includes:
    • Individualized Study Plan – student have the opportunity to take pre- and post-tests before and after reading each chapter of the text, the test results automatically generate a personalized study plan identifying areas of the chapter they must reread to fully understand chapter concepts. They are also presented with interactive multimedia exercises to help ensure learning  including videos, student artifacts, and actual pages from the text related to a specific chapter objective. The study plan is designed to help students perform well on exams and promote deeper understanding of chapter content.

       

      Homework and Exercises: these assignable activities give students opportunities to understand content more deeply and to practice applying content. The following features are located in this section:

      • Pause to Reflect,
      • Focus you Cultural Lens: Debate,
      • Video Insights - Readers can watch the ABC News Videos highlighted in this feature on the DVD in the front of the Gollnick and Chinn text then go online to MyEducationLab to respond to questions designed to help them reflect on what they have just watched. 
      • Licensure Test Prep Activities, and
      • Observe and Learn: Lessons in Action - as referenced earlier this feature includes 9 brand new videos of multicultural lesson plans in action illustrating how chapter concepts can be applied in the classroom.  

       

      Building Teaching Skills: These assignments help students practice and strengthen skills that are essential to quality teaching. Within each chapter, additional application exercises encourage the reader to walk through and reflect on the teacher’s actions illustrated in the Critical Incidents in Teaching feature.

       

      Case Studies: A diverse set of robust cases drawn from some of our best-selling books further expose students to the realities of teaching and offer valuable perspectives on common issues and challenges in education.

       

      Student and Teacher Artifacts: Authentic student and teacher classroom artifacts are tied to course topics and offer practice in working with the actual types of materials encountered every day by teachers.  

Explore Your Beliefs

  • ABC News Video Insights – Watch 14 ABC News videos on the DVD included in the front of the book that explore current issues in multicultural education today including five new topics on: immigration, zero tolerance policies, evolution and creationism, social cruelty and bullying, as well as the Civil Rights Era.
  

Expand Your Knowledge of Current Topics

  • NEW! Geography Chapter – This new chapter explores the impact of geography on our cultural identity. Main topics include immigration, regional cultures in the U.S., and the impact of globalization.
  • NEW! New Topics – Expanded attention to sexual orientation, non-Western religions, and Evangelicals capture issues at the forefront of our constantly changing society.

    Chapter 1    Foundations of Multicultural Education

                        Diversity in the Classroom

                        Mutlicultural Education

                        Culture

                        Cultural Identity

                        Pluralism in Society

                        Equality and Social Justice in a Democracy

    Chapter 2    Ethnicity and Race

                        Ethnic and Racial Diversity

                        Civil Rights

                        Ethnicity

                        Race

                        Racism

    Chapter 3    Class and Socioeconomic Status

                        Class Structure

                        Socioeconomic Status

                        Class Differences

                        Interaction of Class with Race and Ethnicity, Gender, and Age

    Chapter 4    Gender and Sexual Orientation

                        Male and Female Differences

                        Gender Identity

                        Sexual Orientation

                        The Women's Movement

                        Sexism and Gender Discrimination

    Chapter 5    Exceptionality

                        Students with Disabilities and Those Who Are Gifted and Talented

                        Litigation

                        Legislation

                        Exceptional Individuals and Society

                        Disproportionate Placement in Special Education

                        California Proposition 227 and Special Education

    Chapter 6    Language

                        Language and Culture

                        The Nature of Language

                        Language Differences

                        Nonverbal Communication

    Chapter 7    Religion

                        Religion and Culture

                        Religion as a Way of Life

                        Religious Pluralism in the United States

                        Interaction of Religion with Gender, Homosexuality, and Race

                        Individual Religious Identity

    Chapter 8    Geography

                        Geography and Culture

                        Regional Diversity in the United States

                        Rural, Urban, and Suburban Areas

                        Migration

                        Globalization

    Chapter 9    Age

                        Age and Culture

                        Childhood

                        Adolescence

                        Young Adulthood

 

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