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Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives » (1st Edition)

Authors: James Banks
ISBN-13: 9780807735312, ISBN-10: 0807735310
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: April 1996
Edition: 1st Edition

	Preface
1	The Canon Debate, Knowledge Construction, and Multicultural Education	3
2	The African American Roots of Multicultural Education	30
3	Intellectual Leadership and African American Challenges to Meta-Narratives	46
4	The Historical Reconstruction of Knowledge About Race: Implications for Transformative Teaching	64
5	Carter G. Woodson and the Development of Transformative Scholarship	91
6	Allison Davis and the Study of Race, Social Class, and Schooling	115
7	George I. Sanchez and Mexican American Educational Practices	129
8	Mediation and Authority: The Native American Voices of Mourning Dove and Ella Deloria	141
9	Constructing the "Oriental Problem" in American Thought, 1920-1960	156
10	Lifting As We Climb: The Womanist Tradition in Multicultural Education	179
11	Race, Gender, and Calling: Perspectives on African American Women Educators, 1861-1870	201
12	Mary McLeod Bethune: Feminist, Educator, and Activist	217
13	A Reluctant but Persistent Warrior: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Early Civil Rights Movement	233
14	The Intergroup Education Movement	251
15	Research on Racial Attitudes: Historical Perspectives	278
16	Knowledge Construction, Language Maintenance, Revitalization, and Empowerment	297
17	Whites in Multicultural Education: Rethinking Our Role	323
18	Transformative Knowledge, Curriculum Reform, and Action	335
	About the Contributors	349
	Index	353