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Voices of Diversity: Stories, Activities and Resources for the Multicultural Classroom
ISBN-10: 0131178865
ISBN-13: 9780131178861
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 224 pp
Published: 11/29/2005
Status: Instock
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Description
As a main text or supplement to undergraduate or graduate courses in Multicultural Education or any course with a multicultral component.
Voices of Diversity: Stories, Activities, and Resoures for the Multicultural Classroom offers 20 engaging, first-person narratives about school experiences by students, teachers, and parents. They focus on race and ethnicity, learning styles, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, linguistic diversity, gender and gender roles, learning abilities and special needs, and physical abilities. Questions, projects, and activities help students synthesize these issues in ways meaningful to their own classroom practice.
Features
- Pre-reading exercises before each narrative-Helps the reader focus on the topic that is being addressed.
- Narratives by students, teachers, and parents-Show the diverse voices that are heard in today's schools, as well as the concerns and situations seen in the classroom.
- Questions to Consider following each narrative-Help the reader think more deeply about the issues being presented.
- Activities in each chapter-Extend the reader's understanding of each chapter's topic and prompt them to investigate their own feelings and ideas.
- Cultural explorations-Encourage readers to explore a culture more deeply through interviews, trips, and reading materials.
- Internet connections related to each chapter's content-Allow further investigation of the topics.
- Philosophical framework grounded in Freire's ideas-Provides structure to the text.
Table of Contents
Preface
Read Me First
Chapter 1 What is Multicultural Education?
Chapter 2 Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 3 Learning Styles
Chapter 4 Socio-Economic Status
Chapter 5 Sexual Orientation
Chapter 6 Religious Beliefs
Chapter 7 Linguistic Diversity
Chapter 8 Gender and Gender Roles
Chapter 9 Learning Abilities and Special Needs
Chapter 10 Physical Abilities
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