This popular book explores both theory and practice of multicultural education across multiple disciplines-at the elementary, middle school, and collegiate levels. It explains how to make teaching responsive to diverse populations that are changing the face of today's classrooms and campuses. Specific examples of curriculum, instruction, and assessment are used to exemplify contemporary approaches to teaching children and youth from multicultural backgrounds. The book is organized into four sections which address: offering a theoretical and historical overview of multiculturalism, creating multicultural and social reconstructionist environments, integrating theory and practices into each academic discipline, and helping prospective teachers to become proponents of multicultural teaching. An extensive number of examples in each area enables readers to draw upon many real experiences as shared by practitioners in the field. For practitioners of multicultural education, and other teaching professionals who have a multicultural awareness and want to provide support and mentoring to their peers. From the Inside Flap Preface This second edition of Campus and Classroom: Making Schooling Multicultural was written, in part, because our efforts in the first edition were so well received. However, we learned from readers' responses to the first edition. Prospective and practicing teachers requested more examples of linkages between theory and practice in each field. So, we asked the contributors to the initial volume to revise their work with these requests in mind. Furthermore, we asked the authors to enhance their original work by confronting current dilemmas in their fields, providing readers with multiple perspectives on these problems and considering various ways teachers might respond. An excellent example of the ways in which the authors met the challenges we raised is evident in the work of Ann DeVaney in her chapter on reading film and television in the classroom (Chapter 18). Professor DeVaney offers new ways for teachers and students to think about and interrupt the often stereotypic images all of us receive daily in various media. Professor DeVaney concentrates on reading the representations of one group, African Americans; however, the tools she offers for understanding the presentation of images of African Americans can be applied to conceptions constructed of other peoples as well. We also prepared this second edition because readers asked us to address a particular dilemma-how to think about teaching reading in ways that engage all children's interests and needs. We believe that Patricia Enciso, of The Ohio State University, has provided all of us with new ways to think about the theories we bring to teaching reading and the materials and methods with which we translate those ideas into action. About the Text As we work with elementary, middle school, and university students and our university and school colleagues, there is one important theoretical and practical question we are asked time and again. Which approach or definition of multicultural education should we (i.e., universities and K-12 schools) use to prepare our students for life in the 21st century? Education that is multicultural and social reconstructionist, with its focus on all aspects of education-curriculum, instructional pedagogy, staff, personal awareness, advocacy-has become the choice for educators who are developing a vision and constructing or reforming their programs for today's schools. Campus and Classroom: Making Schooling Multicultural was written from this perspective. The book contains four parts.

Part 1 comprises two chapters-the first offers readers a theoretical orientation to the volume and a summary of the individual chapters, and the second contains a historical overview of multiculturalism in the United States. Chapters in Part 2 focus on general issues of pedagogy-how to create teaching and learning environments that are multicultural...

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