The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Multicultural Education

David Gillborn, Gloria Ladson-Billings

Psychology Press, 2004 - Education - 265 pages

This unique publication brings together scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the central questions that shape the field of multicultural education. It offers the reader a great opportunity to achieve a real grasp of the subject, facilitating understanding and articulation of key debates, and making important topics, concepts and theories accessible to a broad audience.
The Reader is divided into four sections, covering the ideas that are at the core of contemporary multicultural education; theories, identities, practices and methods. The first section covers some basic conceptual territory and discusses key ideas including 'race', 'multiculturalism' and 'anti-racism'. The second section draws together writing that focuses explicitly on the question of identities, examining the meaning of 'race'. In the third part, the articles look at life inside multi-racial classrooms and consider how racialised and racist processes operate on a day-to-day level. Finally, the fourth section addresses different aspects of educational research.
The editors have assembled a collection of articles of immense scope and pertinence, making this an excellent must-buy resource book for undergraduates, postgraduates. education practitioners, academics and anyone concerned with race equality and multicultural education.

Contents

• On the theoretical status of the concept of race: 7
• from policy to praxis: 35
• Just what is critical race theory and whats it doing: 49
• ideology identity: 71
• the interactions: 84
• exploding the myth of the black macho: 103
• critical pedagogy whiteness studies: 117
• the experiences: 139
• Racism and the teaching staff: 147
• Teachers and the gender effect: 153
• The kinds of children teachers liked: 160
• Critical multicultural education and students perspectives: 179
• 103: 199
• a collective movement: 201
• critique and transformation: 211
• Memory and experience: 218
• power and pedagogy in educating: 225
• The myth of neutrality in educational research: 243
• Conclusion: 250
• The studies: 258

About the author

Gloria Ladson-Billings was a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked for a decade as a teacher and administrator in the Philadelphia Public Schools. She is the author of The Dreamkeepers (Jossey-Bass, 1997).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Multicultural Education; Readers in education; RoutledgeFalmer Readers in Education Series
• Editors: David Gillborn, Gloria Ladson-Billings
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0415336635, 9780415336635
• Length: 265 pages
• Subjects: Education / Aims & Objectives; Education / General; Education / Multicultural Education; Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects