Multicultural Teaching: A Handbook of Activities, Information, and Resources (6th Edition)

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Summary: Multicultural Teaching: A Handbook of Activities...
Review: For those who want to give multicultural education the justice it deserves, which is why the concept is trying to make its way into American "schooling," DO NOT USE THIS TEXT!!! The authors state information that is both hurtful and untruthful for many groups living in the USA, since before the country's name took hold. An excellent example would be on under "Thinking in the Early Years." African Americans are referred to as immigrants! "Then the slave trade began, bringing in the largest block of immigrants ever, albeit the fact that they came involuntarily" (p. 4). I began using this in my course and now the students are analyzing it for the poor job that the authors have done with history and depicting ethnic/cultural groups in the USA. If you'd like to use this book as an exercise to see how Euro-ethnocentrism deals with people of color, then do so. But don't support nor disseminate this information. It's just bad for everyone.

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Summary: Lonely bird
Review: The book has good pooints in the fact that it does what most have not done, i.e., it has highlighted the diversity and chances of accommodation among races, cultures, and textures.
There is a need for more books of this kind.

The contents of the book tell alot.

To the Reader
Pt. I Multicultural Education: A Framework 1
1 How Can We Best Educate Children in Our Multiculture Today? 3
2 How Do We Teach Multiculturally? 39
3 How Can We Individualize Multicultural Instruction? 75
4 How Can We Infuse Multicultural Concepts into the Total Curriculum? 113
Pt. II Multicultural Education: Teaching Activities and Information 153
5 Who Are We? 155
6 Where Do We Belong? 195
7 Why Do We Need Others? 247
8 What Languages Do We Speak? 297
9 How Do We "Celebrate" Multiculturalism? 345
Pt. III Multicultural Education: Personal and Professional Growth 405
10 How Can We Continue to Expand Our Knowledge Base? 407
Index 419

This book has a major orientation towards the American Mosaic. People who look for Canadian content, will have to look elsewhere: Multicultural Information Resources. A Guide to Metropolitan Toronto Heller, Laura. Toronto Cross Cultural Communication Centre c1987