Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice
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 students’ cultural and individual differences. Incorporating...
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Written for new teachers, this guide to multicultural education 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. Booknews Helps practicing and prospective teachers bridge the gap between multicultural concepts and practice in areas such as classroom management, instructional strategies, and curriculum development. Defines multicultural education, and treats assimilation and pluralism among various groups in the US, learning styles, and teaching strategies. Offers numerous guidelines and specific lesson plans for a multicultural curriculum. This third edition contains new material on European Americans, African Americans, and Muslims and Arab Americans. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
1Multicultural schools : what, why, and how32The nature of culture and the contexts for multicultural teaching413Race relations and the nature of prejudice764European Americans, Jewish Americans, and African Americans1175American Indians, Latinos, Asians, Muslims, and Arabs in the United States1516Learning styles : interactions between culture and the individual1957Reaching all learners : perspectives on gender, class, ethnicity, and special needs2278Teaching concepts and strategies : the development of positive classroom climates2679Multicultural curriculum development : a decision-making model and lesson plans321
\ BooknewsHelps practicing and prospective teachers bridge the gap between multicultural concepts and practice in areas such as classroom management, instructional strategies, and curriculum development. Defines multicultural education, and treats assimilation and pluralism among various groups in the US, learning styles, and teaching strategies. Offers numerous guidelines and specific lesson plans for a multicultural curriculum. This third edition contains new material on European Americans, African Americans, and Muslims and Arab Americans. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
