Bøger i Multicultural Education Series serien

Examines one of the challenging issues for new teachers - how to teach a diverse student population. This book offers descriptions of the issues white student teachers confront as they teach in urban settings and provides insight to help strengthen relationships between racially, socioeconomically, and culturally dissimilar students and teachers.

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.

Addresses the question of what educators can do to close the literacy achievement gap. It begins by outlining theory and research and then provides practical strategies to help teachers improve the literacy learning of students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

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.

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.

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.

Mass migration and globalization are creating new and deep challenges to education systems the world over. In this volume, some of the world's leading researchers in multicultural education and immigration discuss critical issues related to cultural sustainability, structural inclusion, and social cohesion.

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.

Focusing on the lives and experiences of four Mexican children in an American middle school, this work examines both the policy and the instructional dilemmas surrounding the English language education of immigrant children.

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.

Argues that an effective citizenship education helps students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively within their cultural communities, nation states, regions, and the global community.

Reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. This title focuses on the significant role of teachers in transforming students' lives. It also examines the importance of student and teacher voice in research and practice.