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Choosing Democracy: A Practical Guide to Multicultural Education, 3/E
Duane E. Campbell, California State University, Sacramento

ISBN-10: 013098745X
ISBN-13: 9780130987457

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 544 pp
Published: 08/22/2003

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For courses in Multicultural Education or Multicultural Curriculum.

In the third edition, strong coverage of the standards movement and high stakes testing places this reform initiative in historical perspective, brings it up to date with the Bush administration's education agenda, and analyzes its effect upon multicultural education. This edition continues to offer a critical analysis of race, class, gender, and economic status as they apply to schools; and, provides hundreds of practical strategies for classroom use, based on the experience of teachers in geographically diverse, multicultural classrooms.

  • NEW - Significant material on the standards movement in a substantially rewritten Chapter 13—Includes analysis of major reform efforts, such as “Accelerated Schools” and the Comer model, plus discussion of the Leave No Child Behind Act PL 107-110.

    • Ensures students are up-to-date on current movements in educational reform—prepares them for the expectations of principals, school boards, and parents.

  • NEW - Revised Chapter 3, Racism and School —Addresses the changing face of U.S. demographics.

    • Familiarizes students with affirmative action, anti-immigration politics, and the populations represented by the most recent waves of immigrants—helps them “see” commonalities and differences among groups and prepares them for the multicultural and multilingual reality they will encounter in their first classrooms.

  • NEW - Revised Chapter 5, How Society and Schools Shortchange Girls and Boys —Addresses gender issues, sexual orientation issues, and issues of self-esteem in girls.

    • Introduces readers to the issues of identity in relation to culture and race—assists them to better understand how children form their notions of identity, and the role culture plays in this development.

  • NEW - Revised Chapter 8, Democracy and Classroom Management —Includes more descriptions of the interplay between democracy and classroom management.

    • Illustrates ways to manage a classroom based on democratic principles and sensitivity to variations in cultural attitudes on behavior, discipline, etc.—makes the text valuable to even the most reluctant reader.

  • NEW - Revised Chapter 9, Promoting Democracy and Critical Thinking —Includes new material on constructivism.

    • Enhances students' understanding of the differences between critical thinking and critical theory.

  • NEW - New teaching strategies for conflict resolution—Explores the use of conflict resolution.

    • Shows future teachers how to intercede in pupil-to-pupil conflicts.

  • A “nature of culture” approach—Incorporates the European-American background of 75% of today's teachers.

    • Eases prospective teachers' anxiety about addressing race and ethnicity issues by exploring the nature of all cultures—helps them learn to use their own culture as a reference for understanding that of others.

  • A chapter on ESL learners—Including a history of bilingual education in the United States.

    • Provides a thorough grounding in theory plus practical strategies for meeting the challenge of teaching children with limited English proficiency in the regular classroom.

  • Appendices on the educational histories of African-, Chinese-, and Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, and women.

    • Supplies students with background material to inform their, assignments, term papers, and research projects.

  • Lesson plans in Chapters 9,10, and 11—Designed to help readers introduce such topics as critical thinking, cooperative learning and the use of music for social justice themes.

    • Gives students a basic portfolio of ideas for involving young learners in these higher-order skills.

  • Activities for further study at the end of most chapters—Based on the authors' own Introduction to Multicultural Education classes.

    • Offers topics for term papers and research and can be used as springboards for in-class discussion and take-home assignments.

  • Teaching Strategies described in detailed thought—Eleven of the 13 chapters ends with a listing and lessons of how K-12 teachers have presented the key concepts in the chapter to their students.

    • Includes a new teachers survival guide.

  • Significant material on the standards movement in a substantially rewritten Chapter 13—Includes analysis of major reform efforts, such as “Accelerated Schools” and the Comer model, plus discussion of the Leave No Child Behind Act PL 107-110.

    • Ensures students are up-to-date on current movements in educational reform—prepares them for the expectations of principals, school boards, and parents.

  • Revised Chapter 3, Racism and School —Addresses the changing face of U.S. demographics.

    • Familiarizes students with affirmative action, anti-immigration politics, and the populations represented by the most recent waves of immigrants—helps them “see” commonalities and differences among groups and prepares them for the multicultural and multilingual reality they will encounter in their first classrooms.

  • Revised Chapter 5, How Society and Schools Shortchange Girls and Boys —Addresses gender issues, sexual orientation issues, and issues of self-esteem in girls.

    • Introduces readers to the issues of identity in relation to culture and race—assists them to better understand how children form their notions of identity, and the role culture plays in this development.

  • Revised Chapter 8, Democracy and Classroom Management —Includes more descriptions of the interplay between democracy and classroom management.

    • Illustrates ways to manage a classroom based on democratic principles and sensitivity to variations in cultural attitudes on behavior, discipline, etc.—makes the text valuable to even the most reluctant reader.

  • Revised Chapter 9, Promoting Democracy and Critical Thinking —Includes new material on constructivism.

    • Enhances students' understanding of the differences between critical thinking and critical theory.

  • New teaching strategies for conflict resolution—Explores the use of conflict resolution.

    • Shows future teachers how to intercede in pupil-to-pupil conflicts.



Introduction.

1. THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CURRENT SCHOOL CRISIS.

 1. Democracy and the Need for Multicultural Education.

 2. Culture and Schooling.

 3. Racism and Schools.

 4. With Liberty and Justice for Some: Democracy, Class Relations, and Schools.

 5. How Society and Schools Shortchange Girls and Boys.

2. TEACHING STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION.

 6. Human Relations and Multicultural Education.

 7. Teaching to Empower Students.

 8. Democracy and Classroom Management.

 9. Promoting Democracy and Critical Thinking.

 10. Cooperative Learning, Democracy, and Multicultural Education.

 11. Teaching Language-Minority Populations.

3. THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION.

 12. Democracy, Curriculum, and Multicultural Education.

 13. Democratic School Reform: How Do We Get from Here to There?

Appendices.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

  • Instructor's Manual, 3/E
    Campbell
    © 2004 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 128 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131194976 | ISBN-13: 9780131194977


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