Today's classrooms are more diverse than ever before. In order to reach these students, educators must be aware of the issues facing their various cultural, racial, ethnic, and language groups. Focusing on the pertinent issues in multicultural education, this new edition raises these critical issues and facilitates meaningful discussion. It has been completely updated with the latest developments in the field to provide the educator with all the tools necessary to become effective practitioners.

Product Description: Lord Woodroe is found dead, shot through the head in a lonely marble gazebo in the middle of his estate. The Coroner's verdict, suicide. Captain Maddox of Scotland Yard thinks otherwise. Unsolved cases: The Woodroe Investigation takes you as a reader to the point of Maddox's investigation where he is forced to return to London and leaves open the case for you to solve...read more

Product Description: Multicultural education is a flourishing—though sometimes controversial and increasingly contested—field of study. Its major aim and purpose has been described as to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse social, racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds to help them acquire the knowledge, aptitudes, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Divided into five parts, the Seventh Edition emphasizes that the main goal of the multicultural curriculum should be to help readers develop the ability to make reflective decisions so that they can, through thoughtful action, influence their personal, social and civic worlds and help to make them more democratic and just...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In this second edition of Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society which includes three new chapters Banks argues that an effective citizenship education helps students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively within their cultural communities, nation states, regions, and the global community. It also helps students to acquire cosmopolitan perspectives and values needed to attain equality and social justice for people around the world. In the new chapters, Banks draws heavily upon his recent work which focuses on how students in multicultural nations around the world can be educated in ways that will help them to develop the knowledge, attitudes, and values needed to make decisions and to take action to create a more just and humane world.

Product Description: Considered the father of multicultural education in the US and known throughout the world as one of the field’s most important founder, theorist and researcher, James A. Banks has  collected here twenty-one of his most important and best works from across the span of his career...read more

Product Description: This textbook gives students a strong background in the conceptual, theoretical, and philosophical issues in multicultural education. Cultural Diversity and Education is designed to help pre-service and in-service educators clarify the philosophical and definitional issues related to pluralistic education, derive a clarified philosophical position, design and implement effective teaching strategies that reflect ethnic and cultural diversity, and prepare sound guidelines for multicultural programs and practices...read more

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Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This book looks at how a group of educators, social activists, and scholars tried to reduce intergroup tensions and create schools where people of all groups could learn from and with each other.

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"The depth and breadth of coverage is remarkable and the level of research and scholarship impressive." --Educational Leadership This groundbreaking handbook pulls together the leading figures in multicultural education to discuss the history, philosophy, practice, and future of the field. In 47 chapters, they evaluate the debate on multicultural education, examine issues of academic access and achievement, summarize research on the effective education of specific ethnic groups, describe racial and ethnic issues in higher education, and much more. Comprehensive and authoritative, this is a must-read for anyone interested in improving the educational prospects for all children. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Describes six geography themes; each introduces a new concept to help children describe their own adventure as they explore the history, regions and cultures of the United States.

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Product Description: Survey of world history from prehistory through current events

Product Description: This essential volume will assist educators to design and implement classroom interventions that will help students to develop more positive racial and ethnic attitudes and behaviors. Features: -- An up-to-date review of the theories of prejudice and stereotyping-- A careful examination of the conditions under which changes in prejudice and stereotypes can be accomplished-- A wide array of techniques for improving race relations in schools-- Specific recommendations to help educators select the programs that are most suitable for the schools in which they teach...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)