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Bridging Multiple Worlds: Case Studies of Diverse Educational Communities
Lorraine S. Taylor, Professor Emerita, State University of New York at New Paltz
Catharine R. Whittaker, State University of New York at New Paltz

ISBN-10: 0321086694
ISBN-13: 9780321086693

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 304 pp
Published: 01/22/2003

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Bridging Multiple Worlds connects theory and practice, offering authentic, “real world” case studies involving teachers and students of diverse backgrounds in a variety of dynamic classroom settings.

This case study text uses a “Decision Making Scaffold” and specific discussion questions for each case to help students reflect on the cases in greater depth and meaning. Unlike most texts that include vignettes or cases, this text provides direction for class discussions. Instructors will find the authentic situations stimulating and engaging. Furthermore, pertinent research and background information precede each case. In addition, the scaffold and discussion questions facilitate planning and implementing each class session. The emphasis on long-term, comprehesive solutions to problems that link the school, home, and community will help students appreciate and understand the complexity of issues involved in the cases.

  • Broad coverage includes issues of race, culture, language, exceptionality, class, gender, and religion.
  • Offers authentic, comprehensive case studies and a problem solving approach to guide students' analysis and discussion.
  • A “Decision Making Scaffold” (Chs. 4 & 5) guides the analysis of cases and discussions and facilitates more comprehensive, long-term action plans.
  • Explanation of how to use the “Decision Making Scaffold” with a case study example is included and the process is modeled (Ch. 5).
  • Covers working with diverse families (Ch. 11).
  • Numerous boxed features, as well as discussion questions, references, and an extensive research base make this text informative, authoritative, and accessible.

I. Diversity in the United States.

 1. The Changing Pattern of Immigration.

 2. The Current State of Education for Diverse Students in the United States.

 3. Building Partnerships with Diverse Family and Communities.

II. A Case for Cases.

 4. The Development and Use of Cases in Teacher Education.

 5. Putting it All Together: Analyzing and Discussing a Case.

III. Case Studies in Diversity.

 6. Race and Ethnicity.

 7. Culture and Language.

 8. Exceptionality.

 9. Poverty and Socioeconomic Status.

 10. Gender.

 11. Religion.

    This text offers “real world” case studies involving educational staff, students, and families from diverse backgrounds in a variety of dynamic school settings.

     

    Bridging Multiple Worlds emphasizes long-term, comprehensive solutions that promote school, home, and community partnership to meet challenges in educational settings. The text provides foundational information about diversity in the US, multicultural education, and family-school-community partnership in Part I; moves on to explore the use of cases in teacher education and how to analyze cases using a “decision making scaffold” in Part II; and delves deeply into specific cases and the issues surrounding them on a wide range of diversity topics in the seven chapters in Part III.  The authors’ backgrounds in Special Education enable them to incorporate issues involving children with exceptional needs and their families into nearly half of the cases, making this text a good companion to special education courses in addition to a comprehensive resource for all courses about diverse learners.  Instructors and students will find the authentic situations stimulating and well-contextualized with pertinent research and background information preceding each case. Specific discussion questions following each case foster reflective analysis from a social justice perspective.  These questions, used in conjunction with the Decision Making Scaffold, allow for broad and open class discussions of difficult issues and challenge participants to find common ground from which a meaningful and comprehensive plan of action can be developed.  The framework of the book allows future teachers, counselors, related service providers, and administrators to appreciate and understand the complexity of diversity issues in the cases and in the schools/communities where they will work.

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    Taylor & Whittaker
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    ISBN-10: 0205582516 | ISBN-13: 9780205582518
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