Considered the father of multicultural education in the US and known throughout the world as one of the field's most important founder, theorist and researcher, James A. Banks has collected here twenty-one of his most important and best works from across the span of his career. Drawing out the major themes that have shaped the field of multicultural education as well as outlining the development of Banks' own career, these articles, chapters and papers focus on eight key issues:
black studies and the teaching of history
research and research issues
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Considered the father of multicultural education in the US and known throughout the world as one of the field's most important founder, theorist an...
Considered the father of multicultural education in the US and known throughout the world as one of the field's most important founder, theorist and researcher, James A. Banks has collected here twenty-one of his most important and best works from across the span of his career. Drawing out the major themes that have shaped the field of multicultural education as well as outlining the development of Banks' own career, these articles, chapters and papers focus on eight key issues:
black studies and the teaching of history
research and research issues
...
Considered the father of multicultural education in the US and known throughout the world as one of the field's most important founder, theorist an...
There can be no democracy without democrats, and democrats are made, not born. This volume features sixteen provocative essays, old and new, on the concern to educate young people for that loosely-defined genre of political and social life called democracy. It is an historical collection on the central question of our era: How and what might children be taught so that they respond well and creatively to the demands of an increasingly diverse society that is organized under and struggling, on and off, to realize the democratic ideal? How are we to educate children to embrace difference and...
There can be no democracy without democrats, and democrats are made, not born. This volume features sixteen provocative essays, old and new, on the co...
Essential to continued growth in the field of multicultural education is the documentation of its historical roots and its linkages to the current school reform movement. James Banks demonstrates the ways in which the current multicultural education movement is both connected to and a continuation of earlier movements, both scholarly and activist, designed to promote empowerment, knowledge transformation, liberation, and human freedom in US society.
Essential to continued growth in the field of multicultural education is the documentation of its historical roots and its linkages to the current sch...
Here, Walter Parker offers a contribution to the debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favour a cultural literacy approach. Parker demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes a fundamental respect for diversity.
Here, Walter Parker offers a contribution to the debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favour a cultural literacy approac...
This study addresses the issues of how culture, race and ethnicity, and social class influence the teaching and learning processes. It provides an analysis of conditions and reforms in education, and offers suggestions and practices for improving educational outcomes for all children.
This study addresses the issues of how culture, race and ethnicity, and social class influence the teaching and learning processes. It provides an ana...
In this updated edition, Banks argues that an effective citizenship education helps students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively within their cultural communities, nation states, regions, and the global community.
In this updated edition, Banks argues that an effective citizenship education helps students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and values needed to fu...
This volume is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive international description and analysis of multicultural education around the world. It is organised around key concepts and uses case studies from various nations in different parts of the world to exemplify and illustrate the concepts.
This volume is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive international description and analysis of multicultural educati...
Now available in paperback, the sixth edition of this definitive text provides students a strong background in the conceptual, theoretical, and philosophical issues in multicultural education from a leading authority and scholarly leader of the field---James A. Banks.
In the opening chapter author Banks presents his well-known and widely used concept of Dimensions of Multicultural Education to help build an understanding of how the various components of multicultural education are interrelated. He then provides an overview on preparing students to function as effective citizens in a...
Now available in paperback, the sixth edition of this definitive text provides students a strong background in the conceptual, theoretical, and phi...
