A Casebook for Exploring Diversity
ISBN: 9780137061280 | 0137061285
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 4/21/2010
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A Casebook for Exploring Diversityfocuses on the wealth of multicultural and diversity issues faced by today's teachers. Its authentic cases offer opportunities for analysis on several levels and are sufficiently complex so as to invite multiple interpretations. They present examples of everyday situations involving gender, ethnicity, race, religion, language, affectional orientation, socioeconomic status, parents, and community...even technology. The cases involve classroom issues that are relevant to all grade levels and all content areas, al... MORE
Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: Gender
Case 1: Reinf... MORE
Case 2: Fridays Are Video Days
Case 3: Developing Skills of Critical Analysis: Exposing the Myths of Films and Fairy Tales
Case 4: Integrating Women’s Issues into Curriculum
Design Your Own Case: Gender
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Chapter 3: Ethnicity
Case 5: Let’s All Make Up the Rules for Our Classroom
Case 6: A Lesson on Cultural Celebrations of Thanksgiving
Case 7: A Teacher’s Answer To: ”When Will I Ever Use This?”
Case 8: Encountering Art That Contains Stereotypes:
Case 9: Presidents, Leaders, and Cultures
Design Your Own Case: Ethnicity
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Chapter 4: Race
Case 10: The Knowledge Base on Diversity: An Aid for Teachers
Case 11: Students Right an Injustice: A Lesson in Social Justice
Case 12: Use of the N-Word in the Classroom
Case 13: Hey, Teach–You Trippin’ on Me, but Not on the White Kids!
Case 14: A Lesson on Oppression and Whiteness
Design Your Own Case: Race
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Chapter 5: Socioeconomic Status
Case 15: A New Student and a Lesson for the Teacher
Case 16: Gangs and the Victims of Violence– Writing as a Therapy
Case 17: How Should I Grade Danielle?
Case 18: Rewarding Respectful Behavior
Design Your Own Case: Socioeconomic Status
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Chapter 6: Religion
Case 19: Isn’t the Christmas Tree a Christian Symbol?
Case 20: My Persuasive Essay Is “Why We Should Follow Jesus”
Case 21: Planning for Religious Diversity: Special Needs of Muslim Students
Case 22. Faith-Based Teasing, Student Curiosity, and the Question of Infusing Religion Into the Curriculum
Design Your Own Case: Religion
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Chapter 7: Special Needs
Case 23: We Only Meant It as a Joke
Case 24: Structuring for Success in a Mainstreamed Classroom
Case 25: Inaccessibility of Web Sites to Students Who Are Blind
Case 26. Modifications for Special Students: Autism Spectrum Disorder
Design Your Own Case: Special Needs
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Chapter 8: Sexual Orientation
Case 27: Not in My Group–He’s Gay!
Case 28: In Islam, Homosexuality Is a Sin and a Crime
Case 29: “Lesbian!”: Dealing with the Interaction of Sexuality, Special Needs, and Culture
Case 30: A Paperwork Problem: A Transgendered Student Teaches About Gender Identity
Design Your Own Case: Sexual Orientation
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Chapter 9: Language
Case 31: You’ll Need Both Black Vernacular and Standard English
Case 32: They Speak English and Spanish Well, but a Learning Disability Creates Problems in Reading and Writing
Case 33: A Bilingual Teacher’s Aide Assesses His New School
Case 34: Computers and Culturally Diverse Learners
Design Your Own Case: Language
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Chapter 10: Ageism
Case 35: Age as a Factor in Bullying and “Cyberbullying”
Case 36: The Wages We Will Get as Adults Will Pay for the Elderly? What’s Up with That?
Case 37: You’re Teaching Our Kids to Disrespect the Elderly?
Case 38: Age-Related Cultural Needs of Children and Youth
Design Your Own Case: Ageism
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Resource A: Creating Additional Context for a Given Case
Resource B: Banks’s Approaches for the Integration of Multicultural Content
Resource C: Design Your Own Case
Resource D: Bibliography of Multicultural Children’s Literature
Resource E: Sample Rubrics for Assessing Student Responses to Cases
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Glossary
Dr. George Redman has taught 10 years at the P-12 level near Los Angeles and in an urban school in Minneapolis, and 32 years in the Hamline University undergraduate teacher education program in St. Paul. He is author of Teaching in Today's clasrooms: Cases from Elementary School, Teaching in Today's classrooms: Cases from Middle and Secondary Schools, and co-author of Self-Esteem for Tots to Teens. Angela Redman has 10 years of teaching experience at the P-8 level, 5 years of school administrative experience, and holds advanced degrees in special education and curriculum and instruction.
