Multicultural education: issues and perspectives

Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, 9th edition, is designed to help current and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally, racially, linguistically, and social-class diverse classrooms and schools. An important goal of the 9th edition is to help educators attain a sophisticated understanding of the concept of culture and to view race, class, gender, social class, and exceptionality as interacting concepts rather than as separate and distinct.

Pt. 1: Issues and concepts -- Multicultural education: characteristics and goals / James A. Banks -- Culture, teaching, and learning / Christina Convertino, Bradley A. Levinson, and Norma Gonzáles -- pt. 2: Social class and religion -- Social class and education / Lois Weis -- Christian nation or pluralistic culture: religion in American life / Charles H. Lippy -- pt. 3: Gender -- Gender bias: from Colonial America to today's classroom / David Sadker and Karen Zittleman -- Classrooms for diversity: rethinking curriculum and pedagogy / Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault -- Understanding and supporting gender equity in schools / Diane S. Pollard -- Queer lessons: sexual and gender minorities in multicultural education / Cris Mayo -- pt. 4: Race, ethnicity, and language -- Approaches to multicultural curriculum reform / James A. Banks -- Backstage racism: implications for teaching / Leslie H. Picca and Ruth Thompson-Miller -- Language diversity and schooling / Manka M. Varghese -- pt. 5: Exceptionality -- Educational equality for students with disabilities / Sara C. Bicard and William L. Heward -- Culturally responsive special education in inclusive schools / Luanna H. Meyer, Hyun-Sook Park…