Multicultural Education -

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Résumé :

Preface xvii

Part 1 Issues and Concepts 1

1 Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals 3
by James A. Banks

1.1 The Nature of Multicultural Education 3

1.2 The Historical Development of Multicultural Education 4

1.2.1 How Multicultural Education Developed 6

1.3 The Nature of Culture in the United States 6

1.3.1 The Meaning of Culture 6

1.3.2 Identification and Description of the U.S. Core Culture 7

1.3.3 Equality 7

1.3.4 Individualism and Individual Opportunity 8

1.3.5 Individualism and Groupism 8

1.3.6 Expansionism and Manifest Destiny 8

1.3.7 Microcultures in the United States 9

1.3.8 Groups and Group Identification 11

1.3.9 The Teaching Implications of Group Identification 12

1.3.10 The Interaction of Race, Class, and Gender 13

1.4 The Social Construction of Categories 14

1.4.1 Gender 14

1.4.2 Sexual Orientation 14

1.4.3 Race 14

1.4.4 Social Class 15

1.4.5 Exceptionality 15

1.5 The Dimensions of Multicultural Education 16

1.5.1 Content Integration 17

1.5.2 The Knowledge Construction Process 17

1.5.3 Prejudice Reduction 18

1.5.4 An Equity Pedagogy 18

1.5.5 An Empowering School Culture and Social Structure 19

1.6 The School as a Social System 20

Summary 21

Questions and Activities 21

References 22

2 Culture, Teaching, and Learning 25
by Christina Convertino, Bradley A. Levinson, and Norma Gonz?lez

2.1 Getting to Know Culture 26

2.1.1 Some Early Origins of the Construct of Culture 27

2.1.2 Connecting Culture with Education 28

2.1.3 Culture Change and Changes to Culture 29

2.2 Culture and Educational Achievement 32

2.2.1 Cultural Deficit Models 32

2.2.2 Cultural Difference Model and Mismatch Hypothesis 33

2.2.3 Educational Achievement: Voluntary versus Involuntary Immigrant Students 34

2.3 Putting Culture to Work: Culture and Learning in the 21st Century 35

2.3.1 Rethinking Learning and Cultural Processes in Education 36

2.3.2 Learning in Context: What Teachers Need to Know 36

Summary 38

Questions and Activities 38

References 38

Part 2 Social Class and Religion 41

3 Social Class and Education 43
by Lois Weis, Seong Won Han, and Hyunmyung Jo

3.1 Education and the Production of Social and Economic Inequalities 45

3.2 Ability Grouping and Tracking 47

3.3 Official Knowledge and Its Distribution 48

3.4 Access and Outcomes in the Postsecondary Sector 49

3.5 Research on Class Privilege 52

Summary 54

Questions and Activities 54

References 54

4 Christian Nation or Pluralistic Culture: Religion in American Life 60
by Charles H. Lippy

4.1 Europeans Plant Christianity in North America 61

4.2 Early Signs of Diversity 61

4.3 Common Themes 62

4.4 The Spread of Evangelical Protestantism 63

4.5 Religious Freedom and the Separation of Church and State 64

4.6 Diversity, Religious Freedom, and the Courts 67

4.7 Pluralism Becomes the Norm 70

4.8 New Faces of Pluralism 72

4.9 Summary and Educational Implications 76

4.10 Resources 76

Questions and Activities 78

References 78

Part 3 Gender 81

5 Gender Bias: Past, Present, and Future 83
by David Sadker, Karen Zittleman, and Melissa Koch

5.1 The Hidden Civil Rights Struggle 84

5.2 Report Card: The Cost of Sexism in Schools 86

5.3 Gender Bias in the Classroom: The Curriculum...

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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...