Bøger i Multicultural Education Series serien

Drawing from over two decades of research, this book offers an in-depth analysis of a systemic form of everyday racism commonly experienced by People of Color. The authors make a unique contribution to the study of racial microaggressions by using Critical Race Theory to develop the concepts, frameworks, and models provided in this book.

Presents the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model (TIPM), a framework for promoting critical consciousness toward decolonization efforts among educators. The TIPM challenges readers to examine how even the most well intended educators are complicit in reproducing ethnic stereotypes, racist actions, deficit-based ideology, and recolonization.

Provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-field analysis of current trends in the research, policy, and practice of science education. It offers valuable insights into why gaps in science achievement among racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic groups persist, and points toward practical means of narrowing or eliminating these gaps.

As America enters the 21st century, US students slip behind in the world's rankings in science and math. This book explores how America's performance globally is linked to the minority-majority achievement gap at home.

Pulling together the research on the effects of restrictive language policies, this volume focuses on what we know about the actual outcomes for students and teachers in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts - states where these policies have been adopted. It features contributions from well-known educators and scholars in bilingual education.

Brings together key writings from one of the most influential education scholars of our time. In this collection of her seminal essays on critical race theory, Gloria Ladson-Billings seeks to clear up some of the confusion and misconceptions that education researchers have around race and inequality.

Examines the exclusionary aspects of citizenship and offers democratic societies an alternative approach that includes all long-term residents regardless of citizenship and immigration status. Banks reimagines a civic education curriculum that gives students the knowledge and skills they will need to assist the US in becoming a more perfect union.

Outlines what good teachers know, what they do, and how they embrace culturally responsive teaching. This book includes school reform efforts, an introduction and a chapter that talks about the issues such as closing the achievement gap, and to legislation such as No Child Left Behind.

This foundational book on culturally responsive teaching is essential reading in addressing the needs of today's diverse student population. Combining insights from multicultural education theory and research with real-life classroom stories, this demonstrates that all students will perform better on multiple measures of achievement when teaching is filtered through their own cultural experiences.

Offers a critique of recent efforts to reform Indigenous education in public schools. John Hopkins centres his critique on Montana State's innovative and bold multicultural education policy called Indian Education for All, and demonstrates why Indigenous education reforms must decolonize the curriculum and pedagogy.

Chronicles the development and implementation of the African American Male Achievement Initiative in Oakland Unified School District that created an environment with high expectations for the engagement and achievement of Black boys. The text features reflection chapters by leading experts on Black male achievement.

Offering a portrait of American Indian education, this book evaluates US education policies and practices - from early 20th century federal incarnations of colonial education through the standards movement. It reveals the falseness of fears attached to notions of ""dangerous cultural difference"".

Calling for a fresh way to teach history, this book helps teachers move beyond traditional textbooks to tackle difficult but important topics like conflicts with Native Americans, slavery, and racial oppression.

Provides important insights for educators in music, the arts, and other subjects on the role that music can play in the curriculum as a powerful bridge to cultural understanding. The author documents key ideas and practices that have influenced current music education, and examines some of the promises and pitfalls in shaping multicultural education through music.

In this book, nationally renowned scholars join classroom teachers to share equity-oriented approaches that have been successful with urban high school mathematics students. Compiling for the first time major research findings and practitioner experiences from Railside High School, the volume describes the evolution of a fundamentally different conception of learners and teaching. The chapters bring together research and reflection on teacher collaboration and professional community, student outcomes and mathematics classroom culture, reform curricula and pedagogy, and ongoing teacher development. Mathematics for Equity will be invaluable reading for teachers, schools, and districts interested in maintaining a focus on equity and improving student learning while making sense of the new demands of the Common Core State Standards.

Here, Walter Parker offers a contribution to the debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favour a cultural literacy approach. Parker demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes a fundamental respect for diversity.

Over a decade ago, the first edition of City Schools and the American Dream debuted just as reformers were gearing up to make sweeping changes in urban education. More than a new edition, this sequel has been substantially revised to include insights from new research, recent demographic trends, and emerging political realities.

Takes a deep look at how schools must be prepared to respond to disparate outcomes among students of color. Tyrone Howard draws on theoretical constructs tied to race and racism, culture and opportunity gaps to address pressing issues stemming from the chronic inequalities that remain prevalent in many schools across America.

How can teachers learn to teach rich, academically rigorous multicultural curricula under standardization constraints? This book contrasts key curricular assumptions with those of multicultural education, explaining the aspects they share as well as the conceptual and political differences between them.

Presents a range of perspectives to offer practical steps and policy options for creating campus structures that are fair and inclusive to students of all races and social statuses. This book demonstrates the power and value of principled non-violent activism to provoke change and provides strategies to help manage conflict and racial tension.

Chronicles a 10-year journey to develop and sustain a university-school-community partnership designed to address public education's failure to meet the needs of students of colour, particularly Chicana/o students. The authors examine the barriers, mistakes, challenges, and successes that emerged in their community-based partnership.

This is a comprehensive introduction to the main frameworks for thinking about, conducting research on, and teaching about race and racism in education. Renowned theoretician and philosopher Zeus Leonardo surveys the dominant race theories and, more specifically, focuses on those frameworks that are considered essential to cultivating a critical attitude toward race and racism.