Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender

by Christine E. Sleeter, Carl A. Grant

Overview

Focusing on what multicultural education actually looks like in the classroom, "Making Choices for Multicultural Education, Sixth Edition" encourages all to examine the latest theoretical perspectives on multicultural education, as well as personal beliefs about classroom diversity. The authors show how schools reflect broad patterns of institutional discrimination, and then offer five different approaches to addressing such problems in the classroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470383698
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/13/2008
Edition description:	6th Revised ed.
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Christine Sleeter is Professor Emeritus at California State University-Monterey Bay and Vice President of Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, of the America Educational Research Association.

Carl Grant is Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University Wisconsin-Madison and Chair of the Publication Committee of the American Education Research Association. He is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Illusions of Progress, Business as Usual

Chapter 2: Teaching the Exceptional and the Culturally Different

Chapter 3: Human Relations

Chapter 4: Single-group Studies

Chapter 5: Multicultural Education

Chapter 6: Multicultural Social Justice Education

Chapter 7: Our Choice: Multicultural Social Justice Education