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Summary: Easy to get into the world of multicultural education
Review: Frankly speaking, this book is easy to understand for a foreigner like me. Banks uses simple words and fluent writing style to sketch the outline of multicultural education. Althought I think it simplifies the content of multicultural education, it's still a good textbook for a person who begins to enter the world of multicultural education.
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Summary: Easy to get into the world of multicultural education
Review: Frankly speaking, this book is easy to understand for a foreigner like me. Banks uses simple words and fluent writing style to sketch the outline of multicultural education. Althought I think it simplifies the content of multicultural education, it's still a good textbook for a person who begins to enter the world of multicultural education.
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Summary: The most backwards approach to multicultural ed. ever!!!
Review: I have had to use this text for a college course. In reading it, I have been subjected to all sorts of personal prejudices from the authors without any solutions. They have used too many pages voicing their undocumented research in a difficult to read format. The opinions are extreme, with no concrete foundations to back them up. There are constant contradictions in every chapter, sometimes within the same paragraph. This was a waist of college students money!There must be more substancial reading out their on Multicultural Education.
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Summary: Not suitable for modern classrooms
Review: James Banks, considered a master scholar in multicultural studies, came right out of the Civil Rights Movement. One would think that any strategy for teaching ethnic studies should be objective, but this is not the case. His writing is infused with bitterness carried from his personal experiences, and rather than discuss tolerance and appreciation, he preaches reverse-racism. He has a tendency to box people into groups according to their heritage: Mexican-American, Italian-American, etc. What if you do not identify with any group whatsoever and are the product of early 20th century alien assimilation? Those who cannot find a cultural niche are considered Anglo-Saxon. If you pay attention to his writing, you notice that being white is not a good thing. Multicultural studies should promote tolerance. This intolerant mode of thinking is outdated and needs serious revision.
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