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This handy reference is designed to help present and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally, racially, and language diverse classrooms and schools. The Fourth Edition reflects current and emerging research, concepts, and debates about the education of students from both genders and from different cultural, racial, ethnic, and language groups.

Part I ISSUES AND CONCEPTS

1

(82)

Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals

3

(28)

James A. Banks

Culture in Society and in Educational Practices

31

(28)

Frederick Erickson

Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in the Classroom

59

(24)

Carl A. Grant

Christine E. Sleeter

Part II SOCIAL CLASS AND RELIGION

83

(40)

Inner Cities, Affluent Suburbs, and Unequal Educational Opportunity

85

(18)

Jean Anyon

Religious Diversity and Education

103

(20)

James K. Uphoff

Part III GENDER

123

(72)

Gender Bias: From Colonial America to Today's Classrooms

125

(27)

David Sadker

Myra Sadker

Classrooms for Diversity: Rethinking Curriculum and Pedagogy

152

(22)

Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault

Transforming the Curriculum: Teaching about Women of Color

174

(21)

Johnnella E. Butler

Part IV RACE, ETHNICITY, AND LANGUAGE

195

(98)

Educational Equality for Students of Color

197

(28)

Geneva Gay

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

225

(22)

James A. Banks

The Colorblind Perspective in School: Causes and Consequences

247

(21)

Janet Ward Schofield

Language Diversity and Education

268

(25)

Carlos J. Ovando

Part V EXCEPTIONALITY

293

(86)

Educational Equality for Students with Disabilities

295

(32)

William L. Heward

Rodney A. Cavanaugh

School Inclusion and Multicultural Issues in Special Education

327

(26)

Luanna H. Meyer

Jill Bevan-Brown

Beth Harry

Mara Sapon-Shevin

Teaching Gifted Students in a Multicultural Society

353

(26)

Rena F. Subotnik

Gess LeBlanc

Part VI SCHOOL REFORM

379

(42)

School Reform and Student Learning: A Multicultural Perspective

381

(21)

Sonia Nieto

Families and Teachers: Working Together for School Improvement

402

(19)

Cherry A. McGee Banks

Appendix Multicultural Resources

421

(6)

Glossary

427

(5)

Contributors

432

(5)

Index

437

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Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives

Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives

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