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Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, 5/E
Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Patricia Bode, Tufts University in Affiliation with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

ISBN-10: 0205529828
ISBN-13: 9780205529827

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 496 pp
Published: 04/03/2007

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This best-selling text explores the meaning, necessity, and benefits of multicultural education--in a sociopolitical context--for students of all backgrounds.

 

Sonia Nieto and her new co-author, Patty Bode, look at how personal, social, political, cultural, and educational factors affect the success or failure of students in today's classroom. Expanding upon the popular case-study approach, the fifth edition examines the lives of 19 real students who are affected by multicultural education, or the lack of it. This social justice view of multicultural education encourages teachers to work for social change in their classrooms, schools, and communities. Added pedagogy in the form of new tables, figures, and art and an attractive new design makes the text more lively and intuitive.

  • This text offers a critical approach to multicultural education, going beyond the “Taco Tuesdays” approach to teaching about diversity. It includes an expansive survey of the most up-to-date research.
  • 19 engaging case studies, covering racial, linguistic, religious, cultural, and sexual diversity, present real, diverse students to illuminate the need for multicultural education and its affects on students.
  • Case studies are followed by extensive commentary that helps pre-service teachers examine the complex issues presented in the case studies and to think of solutions for future generations of students.
  • Activities for Personal, School, and Community Change engage readers with many suggestions for concrete and practical action.
  • What You Can Do feature challenges future teachers to confront the issues of multicultural education in their own communities and classrooms.
  • To Think About feature helps students reflect on the reading in the chapter to activate learning and aid retention.

  • A new structure to the text demonstrates the book’s logical succession of material: Part I, Theoretical; Part II, Research; Part III, Practice.
  • A brand-new Chapter 10, “Curricular Adaptation for Multicultural Classrooms,” provides curriculum ideas, activities, and resources for pre-service teachers to incorporate into their own classrooms on four topics (“A Study of Cambodia and the Cambodian-American Experience”; “Detracking Math in One Middle School”; Hurricane Katrina as Natural Disaster, Environmental Concern, Political Crisis, and Community Change”; and “Expanding Definitions of Family”).
  • Six new Case Studies and two new Snapshots provide an expanded range of diversity to consider. Case Studies include: Rashaud Kates, African American; Yahaira Léon, Dominican-Puerto Rican; Alicia Montejo, Mexican American; Latrell Elton, African American; Savoun Nouch, Cambodian American; Christina Kamau, Kenyan. Snapshots include: Eugene Crocket, adopted son of two gay fathers; Nini Rostland, Bi-racial student (Black South African and Polish American). Existing cases and commentary now appear in a more concise format.
  • A brand-new Chapter 1, “Understanding the Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education,” sets the stage for the entire text by exploring what is meant by the “sociopolitical context” of multicultural education. It includes part of the previous edition’s Chapter 2 (in which the case study approach is explained, with demographics included).
  • New section on the backlash against multicultural education, which includes an analysis of No Child Left Behind, appears in the new Chapter 1.
  • The popular What Can You Do? box now appears as a recurring What You Can Do  feature throughout the text to encourage students to reflect on issues of multicultural education in their own communities and classrooms.
  • NEW MyLabSchool Activites added to each chapter engage today’s tech-savvy students with simulations and video activities.

Introduction  

 

Part One - Setting the Stage: Multicultural Education within a Sociopolitical Context

 

1 Understanding the Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education

2 About Terminology

3 Multicultural Education and School Reform


Part Two - Developing a Conceptual Framework for Multicultural Education

 

4 Racism, Discrimination, and Expectations of Students’ Achievement  

    Chapter 4 Case Studies: Linda Howard, Rashaud Kates, Vanessa Mattison

5 Structural and Organizational Issues in Schools  

    Chapter 5 Case Studies: Avi Abramson, Fern Sherman

6 Culture, Identity, and Learning  

    Chapter 6 Case Studies: Yahaira León, James Karam, Hoang Vinh, Rebecca Florentina

7 Linguistic Diversity in U.S. Classrooms  

   Chapter 7 Case Studies: Manuel Gomes, Alicia Montejo

8 Toward an Understanding of School Achievement  

     Chapter 8 Case Studies: Paul Chavez, Latrell Elton

Part Three - Implications of Diversity for Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society    

 

9 Learning From Students  

    Chapter 9 Case Studies: Nadia Bara, Savoun Nouch, Christina Kamau

10 Adapting the Curriculum for Multicultural Classrooms

11 Affirming Diversity: Implications for Teachers, Schools, and Families

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