Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, Fourth Edition

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Summary: Sonia Nieto cuts to the core of multicultural issues
Review: Affirming Diversity is an excellent text book for anyone involved in the field of education. This book is also a good read for parents. It reads fairly easily, and uses case studies to give insight to lessons. The case studies bring light to the experience of being a minority in a dominated culture. The book is written with sensativity and intelligent. Sonia Nieto is not afraid to write about the struggle, frustration and pain that minorities experience.

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Summary: Affiriming Diversity
Review: I received the book in ample amount of time!! Thanks!!

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Summary: Sociopolitical Marxism
Review: Sonia Nieto has captured the essence of multicultural education because she focuses on real students in real classrooms. She helps teachers and teacher education candidates realize that their goals are the education of all the children in their classrooms and that those most different from the background of the teacher are the ones most in need of multicultural approaches. The goal is student learning, as she points out in her next book, The Light in Their Eyes, Creating Multicultural Learning Communities. I highly recommend this book to any teacher who works with children who speak other first languages than English.

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Summary: Positive indepth look at multicultural education
Review: Sonia Nieto has captured the essence of multicultural education because she focuses on real students in real classrooms. She helps teachers and teacher education candidates realize that their goals are the education of all the children in their classrooms and that those most different from the background of the teacher are the ones most in need of multicultural approaches. The goal is student learning, as she points out in her next book, The Light in Their Eyes, Creating Multicultural Learning Communities. I highly recommend this book to any teacher who works with children who speak other first languages than English.

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Summary: Sociopolitical Marxism
Review: Well now, I know where some of the true Marxist are hiding. In this book, Nieto is trying to create equity policies in schools using taxpayer dollars. If she had her way, she would get rid of capitalism, social classes, and distribution of wealth. Of course, we have already seen how that works in the former Soviet Union (it doesn't work at all). Yes, in a democratic-republic (Nieto always forgets the republic part) there is a dominant culture. Kind of why we call this a nation state, we have national culture. Unfortunately, Nieto is too busy saying the dominant culture is based on White European ideals. In fact, the ideals are based on Judaism, which is not European at all.
There are some aspects of diverse cultures that keep people down trodden in our society, and it is NOT restricted to the dominant cultures. But Nieto makes it sound as though it only happens to dominant cultures.