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- Cover
- Preface
- References
- part 1: Issues and Concepts
- chapter 1: Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals
- 1.1 The Nature of Multicultural Education
- 1.2 The Historical Development of Multicultural Education
- 1.3 The Nature of Culture in the United States
- 1.4 The Social Construction of Categories
- 1.5 The Dimensions of Multicultural Education
- 1.6 The School as a Social System
- SUMMARY
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- chapter 2: Culture, Teaching, and Learning
- 2.1 Getting to Know Culture
- 2.2 Culture and Educational Achievement
- 2.3 Putting Culture to Work: Culture and Learning in the 21st Century
- SUMMARY
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- part 2: Social Class and Religion
- chapter 3: Social Class and Education
- 3.1 Education and the Production of Social and Economic Inequalities
- 3.2 Ability Grouping and Tracking
- 3.3 Official Knowledge and Its Distribution
- 3.4 Access and Outcomes in the Postsecondary Sector
- 3.5 Research on Class Privilege
- SUMMARY
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- chapter 4: Christian Nation or Pluralistic Culture: Religion in American Life
- 4.1 Europeans Plant Christianity in North America
- 4.2 Early Signs of Diversity
- 4.3 Common Themes
- 4.4 The Spread of Evangelical Protestantism
- 4.5 Religious Freedom and the Separation of Church and State
- 4.6 Diversity, Religious Freedom, and the Courts
- 4.7 Pluralism Becomes the Norm
- 4.8 New Faces of Pluralism
- 4.9 Summary and Educational Implications
- 4.10 Resources
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- part 3: Gender
- chapter 5: Gender Bias: Past, Present, and Future
- 5.1 The Hidden Civil Rights Struggle
- 5.2 Report Card: The Cost of Sexism in Schools
- 5.3 Gender Bias in the Classroom: The Curriculum
- 5.4 Gender Bias in the Classrooms: Student–Teacher Interaction
- 5.5 Trends and Challenges
- 5.6 Strategies for Creating Gender-Fair Classrooms
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- Note
- chapter 6: Classrooms for Diversity: Rethinking Curriculum and Pedagogy
- 6.1 Feminist Phase Theory
- 6.2 Male-Defined Curriculum
- 6.3 Contribution Curriculum
- 6.4 Bifocal Curriculum
- 6.5 Women’s Curriculum
- 6.6 Gender-Balanced Curriculum
- 6.7 Changes in Traditional Ways of Teaching
- Sample Lessons
- SUMMARY
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- chapter 7: Queer Lessons: Sexual and Gender Minorities in Multicultural Education
- 7.1 Sexuality and Gender Identity
- 7.2 LGBTQ Legal Progress, Backlash, and the School Curriculum
- 7.3 Overlapping Histories of Multiculturalism and LGBTQ Movements
- 7.4 Histories of Gay-Inclusive Multiculturalism and Other Curricular Inclusiveness
- 7.5 Challenges to Homophobia and Heterosexism
- 7.6 Challenging Assumptions about LGBTQ People
- 7.7 Why Homophobia and Transphobia?
- 7.8 Dilemmas of Queer Inclusion
- 7.9 Seven Things to Do to Improve Education for Students of All Sexual Orientations and Genders
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- part 4: Race, Language Diversity, and Civic Education
- chapter 8: Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform
- 8.1 The Mainstream-Centric Curriculum
- 8.2 Public Sites and Popular History
- 8.3 Efforts to Establish a Multicultural Curriculum
- 8.4 Levels of Integration of Multicultural Content
- 8.5 Guidelines for Teaching Multicultural Content
- SUMMARY
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- chapter 9: Backstage Racism: Implications for Teaching
- 9.1 Context
- 9.2 Methodology
- 9.3 Journals by White Students
- 9.4 Journals by Students of Color
- 9.5 Comparing the Journals Written by Whites and Students of Color
- 9.6 Conclusion and Next Actionable Steps
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- chapter 10: Language Diversity and Schooling
- 10.1 The History of Linguistic Diversity in the United States
- 10.2 Current Linguistic Diversity in the United States
- 10.3 Historical and Legal Overview of Language Policy in the United States
- 10.4 Views on Language Learning and Teaching
- 10.5 Programmatic Responses to Linguistic Diversity
- 10.6 Instructional Methods and Approaches
- 10.7 Additional Considerations
- 10.8 Conclusion
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- RESOURCES
- PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- WEBSITES
- REFERENCES
- chapter 11: Civic Education for Non-Citizen and Citizen Students
- 11.1 Multicultural Citizenship Education and Cosmopolitan Human Rights Education
- 11.2 A Framework for Civic Education for Non-Citizens
- 11.3 Human Rights, Cosmopolitanism, and the Education of Non-Citizen Students
- 11.4 Education for Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
- 11.5 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Education: Challenges and Opportunities
- 11.6 The Stages of Cultural Identity and Human Rights Cosmopolitan Education
- 11.7 Multicultural Citizenship Education for Citizen Students
- 11.8 Mainstream and Transformative Civic Education
- SUMMARY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- Note
- part 5: Exceptionality
- chapter 12: Educational Equality for Students with Disabilities
- 12.1 Identification of Students with Disabilities
- 12.2 Is Disability a Social Construct?
- 12.3 How Many Students with Disabilities Are There?
- 12.4 How Are Students with Disabilities Classified?
- 12.5 How Is Eligibility for Special Education Determined?
- 12.6 Does Classification Affect Instruction?
- 12.7 Brief History of Educational Equality for Students with Disabilities
- 12.8 The Individuals with Disabilities Act: A Legislative Mandate for Educational Equality for Students with Disabilities
- 12.9 Educational Equality for Students with Disabilities: Progress Made but Challenges Remain
- SUMMARY
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- chapter 13: Culturally Responsive Special Education in Inclusive Schools
- 13.1 Special Education as Exclusion and Segregation
- 13.2 Strategies to Prevent Misdiagnosis and Disproportionality
- 13.3 The Monoculture of Mainstream Education
- 13.4 Parent Involvement and Working with Families
- 13.5 Causes of Limited Parent Involvement
- 13.6 Strategies for Schools to Increase Parent Involvement
- 13.7 Culturally Competent Teachers and Inclusive Pedagogies
- 13.8 Preintervention Culturally Responsive Teaching
- 13.9 Culturally Responsive Interventions
- 13.10 Culturally Situated Schooling and Inclusive Pedagogies
- 13.11 Quality Inclusive Schools
- 13.12 Delivery of Special Education in the Context of General Education
- 13.13 Managing Inclusive Classrooms
- 13.14 Diversity and Caring Communities: Outcomes for the Social Good
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- part 6: School Reform and Classroom Assessment
- chapter 14: School Reform and Student Learning: A Multicultural Perspective
- 14.1 Defining School Reform with a Multicultural Perspective
- 14.2 Conditions for Systemic School Reform Based on a Multicultural Perspective
- 14.3 School Reform Should Be Antiracist and Antibiased
- 14.4 School Reform Should Reflect an Understanding and Acceptance of All Students as Having Talents and Strengths That Can Enhance Their Education
- 14.5 School Reform Should Be Considered within the Parameters of Critical Pedagogy
- 14.6 What Kind of World Do You Want to Live In? Practicing and studying the Declaration of Human Rights
- 14.7 The People Most Intimately Connected with Teaching and Learning (Teachers, Families, and Students) Need to Be Meaningfully Involved in School Reform
- 14.8 School Reform Needs to Be Based on High Expectations and Rigorous Standards for All Learners
- 14.9 Conclusion
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- chapter 15: Communities, Families, and Educators Working Together for School Improvement
- 15.1 Reasons Why Parent and Family Involvement in Schools Is Important
- 15.2 Historical Overview
- 15.3 The Changing Face of the Family
- 15.4 Parents with Special Needs
- 15.5 Single Parents
- 15.6 Low-Income Parents
- 15.7 Teacher Concerns with Parent and Family Involvement
- 15.8 Steps to Increase Parent and Family Involvement
- 15.9 Establish Two-Way Communication Between the School and the Home
- 15.10 Enlist Support from Other Staff Members and Students
- 15.11 Enlist Support from the Community
- 15.12 Develop Learning Resources for Parents to Use at Home
- 15.13 Broaden the Conception of Parent and Community Involvement
- SUMMARY
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- WEBSITES
- REFERENCES
- chapter 16: Classroom Assessment and Diversity
- 16.1 Bias and Sensitivity Issues in Assessment
- 16.2 Lessons Learned from a Bias and Sensitivity Review Panel
- 16.3 Investigating Potential Bias through Statistical Analyses
- 16.4 The Impact of Language Complexity on ELL Students’ Performance
- 16.5 Potential Bias in Computer-Based Testing
- 16.6 The Effects of Engagement on Assessment Performance
- 16.7 The Social Context of Assessment
- 16.8 Teacher Assessment Practices
- SUMMARY
- QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES
- Note
- Appendix: Multicultural Resources
- ISSUES AND CONCEPTS
- SOCIAL CLASS
- RELIGION
- GENDER
- SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES
- RACE, LANGUAGE DIVERSITY, AND CIVIC EDUCATION
- EXCEPTIONALITY
- SPECIAL EDUCATION AND EQUITY
- SCHOOL REFORM AND ASSESSMENT
- Glossary
- REFERENCES
- Contributors
- Index
- End User License Agreement