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This text takes a personal and practical approach towards multicultural education. Instead of starting with theory and adding classroom applications as secondary content, Multicultural Education starts with what a teacher needs to know in order to be an effective multicultural educator. A strong theoretical foundation about caring-centered multicultural education is interwoven throughout the text in a manner that makes it relevant to the reader. The text’s strong practical approach, along with its reader-friendly and jargon-free upbeat writing style, make it ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I: A Culturally Relevant and Caring Teacher

Chapter 1: Why Multicultural Education?

Chapter 2: Why is Culture Important? The Power of Culture

Part II: Confronting Prejudice in Ourselves and Our Schools: Making Changes

Chapter 3: What Are Our Hidden Hurdles?

Chapter 4: How Does it Feel to be Discriminated Against?

Chapter 5: Aren't Mary and Michael Too Young to be Prejudiced?

Chapter 6: How Can I Look Beneath the Surface for Prejudice in Schools?

Part III: Caring Centered Multicultural Education: Framework and Principles

Chapter 7: What is Caring-Centered Multicultural Education?

Chapter 8: What Does it Mean to be a Reflective Teacher?

Part IV: Creating a Caring and Culturally Meaningful Classroom

Chapter 9: How do Students Learn a Second Language?

Chapter 10: What is Culturally Relevant Teaching?

Chapter 11: How Can I Make the Curriculum More Culturally Meaningful? How Can I Tap Into Prior Knowledge of My Students?

Part V: Professional Development

How Can I Remain Effective in My Teaching?

Teacher Resources

Glossary

Credits

Index

About the Authors

Valerie Pang is a professor of teacher education at San Diego State University. Page earned a doctorate at the University of Washington in 1981. She was a Spence Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and studied achievement and test anxiety in Asian American students from 1987-1989. She is presently a senior fellow at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, holding an academic appointment to Brown University. In the summer of 1996 Pang was an invited scholar at the University of Washington’s Center for Multicultural Education and taught a class on Asian American children. In 1999 Pang was honored by the National Association for Multicultural Education with the Multicultural Educator Award for her local region for her work in the areas of culture and equity. In addition, Pang received the 1997 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Standing Committee on the Role and Status of Minorities in Education.

New Features

Revised explanation of the text's approach Chapter 1 has been expanded and improved to more effectively explain the text’s unique, caring-centered approach, illustrating it through a case example of Caswell Country Training School, a segregated black school that exemplifies caring-centered multicultural education.

New chapter on second language learners A new Chapter 9 focuses on second language learners and contains a unique section written by a bilingual classroom teacher.

New coverage includes new or expanded coverage on a variety of topics, including homophobia, sexual identity, myths of race, classism, Milton Bennett’s model of Intercultural Sensitivity, white privilege, the Lemon Grove Incident, Martin Luther King, Jr., terminology, The Racial Privacy Act, and more!

Expanded visual program More relevant cartoons and real classroom photographs (taken by the author herself) have been added to help illustrate key themes of the text.

Enhanced pedagogy The text now includes a variety of student-oriented features such as lists of each chapter's main ideas, chapter overviews, case studies, "Web Connection" boxes that link to the text’s Online Learning Center, "Take a Stand" activities, helpful marginal notes, reflection activities, chapter summaries, lists of key terms, and a comprehensive “Teacher Resources” section at the end of the book.

Supplements Packaged free with this text is the new edition of Paul Gorski’s Multicultural Education and the Internet. The text is also accompanied by an Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM and a revised Online Learning Center that includes a student study guide with quizzes as well as PowerWeb resources (related articles and a current news feeds).