Developing Multicultural Educators

Author : Jana Noel
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781478636922

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Written in a narrative style, with complex concepts and theories explained in everyday language, and full of practical, current examples, this concise text asks educators to examine their identities. It demonstrates how the social construction of identities has shaped individuals’ perceptions, judgments, and understanding of the world. Noel integrates the right mix of personal experiences of multicultural educators, literature from that field, and information from the psychological, philosophical, and sociological foundations of education to help educators plan for diversity in their teaching. Alongside up-to-date statistics and examples are timely discussions of immigration, community involvement, the achievement gap, sex and gender, hate crimes, and bullying—issues that touch multicultural educators on a daily basis. Advantageous pedagogical tools—group and individual activities, guided discussion questions, case studies, and end-of-chapter reflective writings—help readers gain a clear vision of how to be an effective teacher in today’s diverse communities.

Author : Jana Noel
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Multicultural education
ISBN : 1478635746

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Developing Multicultural Educators by Jana Noel Pdf

Written in a narrative style, with complex concepts and theories explained in everyday language, and full of practical, current examples, this concise text asks educators to examine their identities. It demonstrates how the social construction of identities has shaped individuals¿ perceptions, judgments, and understanding of the world. Noel integrates the right mix of personal experiences of multicultural educators, literature from that field, and information from the psychological, philosophical, and sociological foundations of education to help educators plan for diversity in their teaching.Alongside up-to-date statistics and examples are timely discussions of immigration, community involvement, the achievement gap, sex and gender, hate crimes, and bullying¿issues that touch multicultural educators on a daily basis. Advantageous pedagogical tools¿group and individual activities, guided discussion questions, case studies, and end-of-chapter reflective writings¿help readers gain a clear vision of how to be an effective teacher in today¿s diverse communities.

Author : William A. Howe,Penelope L. Lisi
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483365077

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Becoming a Multicultural Educator by William A. Howe,Penelope L. Lisi Pdf

2013 Recipient of Philip C. Chinn Award from the National Association of Multicultural Education Providing an essential foundation for pre-service and in-service PK-12 educators, this engaging and practical book focuses on essential questions and theoretical concepts about becoming a multicultural educator. Award-winning authors William A. Howe and Penelope L. Lisi bring theory and research to life through numerous activities, exercises, and lesson plans designed to heighten the reader’s cultural awareness, knowledge base, and skill set. Responding to the growing need to increase academic achievement and to prepare teachers to work with diverse populations of students, this text show readers how to incorporate cultural knowledge into more effective classroom practice. The fully updated Second Edition is packed with new activities and exercises to illustrate concepts readers can apply within their own classrooms and school-wide settings.

Author : Joseph M. Larkin,Christine E. Sleeter
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791425932

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Developing Multicultural Teacher Education Curricula by Joseph M. Larkin,Christine E. Sleeter Pdf

This book explores how to make teacher preparation more multicultural.

Author : Jana Noel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0801320577

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Author : Geneva Gay
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 0787965146

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Becoming Multicultural Educators by Geneva Gay Pdf

To help both new and seasoned teachers to become more effective with their students from diverse backgrounds, Becoming Multicultural Educators edited by Geneva Gay, offers fourteen compelling stories from different regions, cultures, ethnic groups, and stages of professional and personal growth in developing multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. One contributing author declares community participation and social activism are the keys to his professional growth. For another, multicultural understanding comes when she learns to unveil the masks of insidious negative stereotypes. Through these stories, we share their struggles as these educators come to understand diversity among ethnic groups and cultures, resolve conflicts between curricular and multicultural goals, and find authentic models and mentors for their students. But most important, we learn how this laudatory group of educators has come to realize that they need to know themselves if they are to truly know their students. Well-grounded in education theory, Becoming Multicultural Educators is both personal and inspiring. This is the book that will help teachers, and those who prepare them, blossom as educators and human beings.

Author : Nadine Dolby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136345920

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Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation by Nadine Dolby Pdf

Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation builds on the legacy of social justice multicultural education, while recognizing the considerable challenges of reaching today’s college students. By drawing on breakthrough research in two fields – neuroscience and animal studies – Nadine Dolby argues that empathy is an underlying element of all living beings. Dolby shows how this commonality can provide a scaffolding for building an exciting new approach to developing multicultural and global consciousness, one that has the potential to transform how our students see and relate to the world around them. This book features classroom vignettes and reflections, discussion of research with pre-service teachers on the concept of empathy, and pedagogical suggestions for fostering the new empathy in students. Incorporating discussions of animal emotions, sustainability, and our responsibilities to all living creatures and the planet, Dolby challenges multicultural educators to rethink both curriculum and pedagogy and to begin new and bolder conversations about how empathy for humans, animals, and the planet must be part of a new approach to teaching.

Author : Gordon, Richard Keith,Ahmed, Kawser,Hosoda, Miwako
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799876519

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Evolving Multicultural Education for Global Classrooms by Gordon, Richard Keith,Ahmed, Kawser,Hosoda, Miwako Pdf

Multicultural education is a construct that has been very useful for many years in harboring sensitivities teachers need in addressing diverse students. Now the discipline needs refreshing. In the global society, the idea of multicultural education, a decidedly Western formation, needs to expand its conceptual boundaries. Salient issues in multicultural education such as individual identities, social justice, and equity are bedrock concerns of multicultural educators. These concepts are considered necessary but not sufficient in shaping an evolving model of multicultural education. The complexity of humans and modern and emerging societies requires a broadened scope of the understanding of contemporary multicultural theory and practice. Evolving Multicultural Education for Global Classrooms addresses multicultural education from a comprehensive viewpoint that acknowledges the historical benefit of multicultural education and recognizes a need to inform the discipline with a broader viewpoint. As most knowledge on multicultural education comes from a Western perspective and the scholarship on the topic is weakening, the chapters in this book present new practices and classroom applications that are internationally transferable. Topics covered include teacher education, social justice, educational equity and inclusion, online education, and cultural sensitivities. This book is ideally intended for teachers, educational theorists, sociologists of education, inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in a fresh global perspective on multicultural education.

Author : Christine E. Sleeter
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791404439

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Empowerment through Multicultural Education by Christine E. Sleeter Pdf

This book reframes questions about student diversity by probing the extent to which society serves the interests of all, and by examining the empowerment of members of oppressed groups to direct social change. It examines the empowerment of children who are members of oppressed racial groups, lower class, and female, based on the ideas of multicultural education. A series of ethnographic studies illustrates how such young people view their world, their power to affect it in their own interests, and their response to what is usually a growing sense of powerlessness as they mature. The authors also conceptualize contributions of multicultural education to empowering young people, and report investigations of multicultural education projects educators have used for student empowerment. Issues in teacher education are also discussed.

Author : Ratna Ghosh,Mariusz Galczynski
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Educational change
ISBN : 9781551306285

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Redefining Multicultural Education, 3rd Edition by Ratna Ghosh,Mariusz Galczynski Pdf

As the first country in the world to enact a formal policy of multiculturalism, Canada has made impressive strides toward promoting civic inclusion for all; however, the education system remains less than forthcoming about the injustices that shape our democracy and create conditions that teach young people to see difference as deficiency. Ratna Ghosh and Mariusz Galczynski seek to persuade educators to incorporate the ideology of multiculturalism into their classroom pedagogy and professional practice. In this third edition, Redefining Multicultural Education mobilizes an expanded definition of multiculturalism that encompasses gender identity, sexual orientation, religious expression, and (dis)ability. New features include material on environmental awareness, cyberbullying, multilingual learners, digital technologies, youth radicalization, and recent events in Quebec and First Nations communities. Integrating vignettes, discussion questions, and sample activities with techniques for applying a multicultural lens to any subject area or level of study, this lively and accessible guide is essential for those interested in preparing students for a global economy in which innovation relies, before all else, on diversity.

Author : Kyoung-Ho Shin
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 1634853326

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Multicultural Education in Global Era by Kyoung-Ho Shin Pdf

This book is a collection of scholarly works that give us an overview of how theory, research, and practices in the field of multiculturalism and multicultural education are advancing and developing in the era of globalization today. The authors of each chapter in this volume illustrate the ways globalization as a social change on a world scale affects theoretical conceptualizations and various modes of intersections between multiculturalism and social factors of race, gender, and language in contemporary societies. A diversity of conceptual analyses and practices of multiple cases for the advancement in the processes of curriculum development to embrace the elements of global multiculturalism are offered in the volume. The curriculum in higher education needs to include global issues and multiculturalism, which reaches into the meanings of global capital flights and implications of domestic crises of culture. It is because global education in universities and colleges involves dimensions of curricula adjustment, assessments and feedback, and communications among students, teachers, and the community. When multicultural education has global components that help students develop cosmopolitan attitudes and become effective world citizens, students are able to develop a multiple number of allegiances to their racial or ethnic group, their own nation, and the globe.

Author : Patricia G. Ramsey,Edwina Battle Vold,Leslie R. Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : 0824085582

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Multicultural Education by Patricia G. Ramsey,Edwina Battle Vold,Leslie R. Williams Pdf

The second edition of this source book contains essays and annotations on a number of issues related to multicultural education. The authors define multicultural education as a process-oriented creation of learning experiences that foster an awareness of, respect for, and enjoyment of the diversity of our society and world. Inherent in this definition of multicultural education is a commitment to create a more just and equitable society for all people. This book, then, offers suggestions relevant to the teaching of all children, all teaching and curricular decisions, and every aspect of educational policy.

Author : Carl A. Grant,Christine E. Sleeter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136829017

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Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity by Carl A. Grant,Christine E. Sleeter Pdf

Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity, a hands-on, reader-friendly multicultural education textbook, actively engages education students in critical reflection and self-examination as they prepare to teach in increasingly diverse classrooms. In this engaging text, Carl A. Grant and Christine E. Sleeter, two of the most eminent scholars of multicultural teacher education, help pre-service teachers develop the tools they will need to learn about their students and their students’ communities and contexts, about themselves, and about the social relations in which schools are embedded. Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity challenges readers to take a truly active and ongoing role in promoting equity within education and helps to guide them in becoming highly qualified and fantastic teachers. Features and updates to this much-anticipated second edition include: Reflection boxes that encourage students to actively engage with the text and concepts, along with downloadable templates available on Routledge.com "Putting It into Practice" activities that offer concrete suggestions for really "doing" multicultural work in the classroom Fictional vignettes that illustrate the real issues teacher education students face and the ways their own cultural attitudes can impact their response New coverage of issues pertaining to student achievement, federal and state policy, and socioeconomic connections between the current economy and educational funding A more comprehensive discussion about the different social movements that have affected education in the past and present

Author : Arnetha F. Ball
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 080774669X

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Multicultural Strategies for Education and Social Change by Arnetha F. Ball Pdf

This book describes a different approach to teacher education designed to create "carriers of the torch"--teachers who have a sense of efficacy and the attitudes, dispositions, and skills necessary to teach students from diverse racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. Through her examination of teacher change and teacher education in two countries--the United States and South Africa--the author proposes new ways to prepare teachers for a rapidly changing global society.

Author : Enid Lee,Deborah Menkart,Margo Okazawa-Rey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Anti-racism
ISBN : 1878554174

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Beyond Heroes and Holidays by Enid Lee,Deborah Menkart,Margo Okazawa-Rey Pdf

Interdisciplinary manual analyzes the roots of racism through lessons and readings by numerous educators. Issues such as tracking, parent/school relations, and language policies are addressed along with readings and lessons for pre- and in-service staff development. All levels.