Choosing Democracy A Practical Guide To Multicultural Education

Choosing Democracy

For courses in Multicultural Education or Multicultural Curriculum. In the third edition, strong coverage of the standards movement and high stakes testing places this reform initiative in historical perspective, brings it up to date with the Bush administration's education agenda, and analyzes its effect upon multicultural education. This edition continues to offer a critical analysis of race, class, gender, and economic status as they apply to schools; and, provides hundreds of practical strategies for classroom use, based on the experience of teachers in geographically diverse, multicultural classrooms.

Choosing Democracy

Choosing Democracy

This text is appropriate for any course in Multicultural Education or Multicultural Curriculum. This book takes a strong social reconstructionist approach in advocating democratic school reform. It focuses on empowerment and provides detailed descriptions of teaching strategies to achieve it. Based on the experiences of hundreds of future teachers in multicultural education courses, this text offers concrete teaching alternatives that can be used in the classroom to respond to the issues of racism, sexism, gender, and class bias.* NEW-Emphasizes democratic, as opposed to arbitrary, forms of management, in the significantly revised chapter titled Democracy and Classroom Management. * Students are guided to develop their management systems based upon democratic theory. * NEW-Features seven contributors to the text. * Brings increased diversity to the topics of race relations, gender, language acquisition, standards as a strategy for reform, and the analysis of school reform efforts. * NEW-Updates economic data. * Reflects the issues of international economic competition. * NEW-Adds new biographies and related activities. * Encourages students to write their own lessons using critic