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Human Diversity in Education: An Intercultural Approach is a research-based, comprehensive text designed to provide an introduction to multicultural education and diversity in society.

The text prepares future teachers for the wide diversity of students that they are certain to meet in their classrooms, schools, and communities. It provides an updated and broad treatment of the various forms of human diversity found in today's schools including nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, class, language, sexual ori... MOREentation, and ability levels. Based on the assumption that it is at the level of the individual teacher where the change that must occur with regard to diversity in schools begins, it assumes that teachers must learn to incorporate issues of diversity in all of their teaching, including, but not limited to their interactions with children, parents, other teachers and the community.

The text contains introductory case studies that are referred back to in a series of chapter-ending critical incidents that prompt students to apply what they learned in the chapter. Important topics covered include: intercultural development of individuals, globalization and international education, religion in society and schools, gender and sexuality, exceptionality, and diversity with respect to early childhood.

Preface

PART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR MULTICULTURAL TEACHING

Chapter 1: Education in a Changing Society

Chapter 2: Multicultural Education: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 3: Culture and the Culture-Learning Process

Chapter 4: Classrooms and Schools as Cultural Crossroads

Chapter 5: Intercultural Development: Considering the Growth of Self and Others

PART II: MULTICULTURAL TEACHING IN ACTION

Chapter 6: Creating Classrooms that Address Race and Ethnicity

Chapter 7: The Classroom as a Global Community:... MORE Nationality and Region

Chapter 8: Developing Learning Communities: Language and Learning Style

Chapter 9: Religious Pluralism in Secular Classrooms

Chapter 10: Developing a Collaborative Classroom: Gender and Sexual Orientation

Chapter 11: Creating Developmentally Appropriate Classrooms: The Importance of Age and Developmental Status

Chapter 12: Creating Inclusive Classrooms: The Ability/Disability Continuum and the Health Dimension

Chapter 13: Improving Schools for All Children: The Role of Social Class and Social Status in Teaching and Learning

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Name Index

Subject Index