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Authors: Carl A. Grant
ISBN-13: 9781850004769, ISBN-10: 1850004765
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 1992
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Carl A. Grant

Book Synopsis

A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students.\

Table of Contents

Introduction1
Pt. 1The Marginalization of Multicultural Discourse
1Research and Multicultural Education: Barriers, Needs and Boundaries7
2The Marginalized Discourse of Minority Intellectual Thought in Traditional Writings on Teaching19
3Multicultural Education: From a Compensatory to a Scholarly Foundation32
Pt. 2Conducting Multicultural Education Research
4Reflections on the Researcher in a Multicultural Environment47
5Using Quantitative Methods to Explore Multicultural Education58
6Using Multiple Strategies to Assess Multicultural Education in a School District71
7Manifestations of Inequality: Overcoming Resistance in a Multicultural Foundations Course89
8Culturally Relevant Teaching: The Key to Making Multicultural Education Work106
9Riding the Wave: Collaborative Inquiry Linking Teachers at the University and the Urban High School122
10The Language Minority Student and Multicultural Education141
11Success Stories153
12Relationships Between Home, Community and School: Multicultural Considerations and Research Issues in Early Childhood165
13Teacher Education Programs and Increasing Minority School Populations: An Educational Mismatch?184
Pt. 3The Social Impacts of Multiculturalism in Education
14Schools and Opportunities for Multicultural Contact203
15Multicultural Education: Policies and Practices in Teacher Education218
16Policy Analysis of State Multicultural Education Programs240
Notes on Contributors250
Index256

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