Human diversity in education : an intercultural approach
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Human diversity in education : an intercultural approach
McGraw-Hill, c2012
7th ed
Available at 2 libraries
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Previous ed.: c2009
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Human Diversity in Education: An Integrative Approach is a research-based, comprehensive text designed to provide an introduction to multicultural education and diversity in society. The text prepares future teachers for the wide diversity of students that they are certain to meet in their classrooms, schools, and communities. It provides an updated and broad treatment of the various forms of human diversity found in today's schools including nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, class, language, sexual orientation, and ability levels. Based on the assumption that it is at the level of the individual teacher where the change that must occur with regard to diversity in schools begins, it assumes that teachers must learn to incorporate issues of diversity in all of their teaching, including, but not limited to their interactions with children, parents, other teachers and the community.
The text contains introductory case studies that are referred back to in a series of chapter-ending critical incidents that prompt students to apply what they learned in the chapter. Important topics covered include: intercultural development of individuals, globalization and international education, religion in society and schools, gender and sexuality, exceptionality, and diversity with respect to early childhood
Table of Contents
PrefacePART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR MULTICULTURAL TEACHINGChapter 1:Education in a Changing SocietyChapter 2: Multicultural Education: Historical and Theoretical PerspectivesChapter 3:Culture and the Culture-Learning ProcessChapter 4:Classrooms and Schools as Cultural CrossroadsChapter 5:Intercultural Development: Considering the Growth of Self and OthersPART II: MULTICULTURAL TEACHING IN ACTIONChapter 6:Creating Classrooms that Address Race and EthnicityChapter 7:The Classroom as a Global Community: Nationality and RegionChapter 8:Developing Learning Communities: Language and Learning StyleChapter 9:Religious Pluralism in Secular ClassroomsChapter 10:Developing a Collaborative Classroom: Gender and Sexual OrientationChapter 11:Creating Developmentally Appropriate Classrooms: The Importance of Age and Developmental StatusChapter 12:Creating Inclusive Classrooms: The Ability/Disability Continuum and the Health DimensionChapter 13:Improving Schools for All Children: The Role of Social Class and Social Status in Teaching and LearningGlossaryCreditsName IndexSubject Index
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