Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives

James A. Banks, Cherry A. McGee Banks

John Wiley & Sons, Nov 12, 2019 - Education - 384 pages

As diversity continues to increase in the United States, ethnic, cultural, social-class, and linguistic gaps are widening between teachers and their students. The rapidly changing educational landscape presents unique challenges and opportunities for addressing diversity both creatively and constructively in schools. Multicultural Education helps current and future educators fully understand sophisticated concepts of culture; become more effective practitioners in diverse classrooms; and view race, class, gender, social class, and exceptionality as intersectional concepts.

Now in its tenth edition, this bestselling textbook assists educators to effectively respond to the ways race, social class, and gender interact to influence student behavior and learning. Contributions from leading authorities in multicultural education discuss the effects of class and religion on education; differences in educational opportunities for male, female, and LGBTQ students; and issues surrounding non-native English speakers, students of color, and students with disabilities. Contemporary in relevance, this timely volume promotes multicultural education as a process of school reform. Practical advice helps teachers increase student academic achievement, work effectively with parents, improve classroom assessment, and benefit from diversity.

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Contents

• Culture Teaching and Learning: 25
• Social Class and Religion: 41
• Religion in American Life: 60
• Gender: 81
• Gender: 83
• Rethinking Curriculum and Pedagogy: 101
• Sexual and Gender Minorities in Multicultural: 118
• Questions and Activities: 132
• Race Language Diversity and Civic Education: 135
• Implications for Teaching: 158
• Language Diversity and Schooling: 174
• vii: 179
• Civic Education for NonCitizen and Citizen Students: 198
• Exceptionality: 215
• 12: 217
• Culturally Responsive Special Education in Inclusive Schools: 240
• School Reform and Classroom Assessment: 265
• Communities Families and Educators Working Together: 284
• Classroom Assessment and Diversity: 306
• Multicultural Resources: 329
• Contributors: 339
• Index: 343

About the author

Cherry A. McGee Banks is professor of education emeritus at the University of Washington, Bothell. She is the author of Improving Multicultural Education: Lessons from the Intergroup Education Movement and co-editor of the Handbook of Research of Multicultural Education. Professor Banks has served on several national committees and boards and is a member the Seattle Art Museum Board of Trustees.

James A. Banks is the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research focuses on multicultural education and diversity and citizenship education in a global context. He is the author of An Introduction to Multicultural Education (Sixth Edition, Pearson) and editor of Citizenship Education and Global Migration: Implications for Theory, Research, and Teaching, published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives
• Editors: James A. Banks, Cherry A. McGee Banks
• Edition: 10
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2019
• ISBN: 111951021X, 9781119510215
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects