Table of Contents:
  • Issues and Concepts
  • Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals / James A. Banks
  • The Nature of Multicultural Education
  • Multicultural Education: An International Reform Movement
  • The Historical Development of Multicultural Education
  • How Multicultural Education Developed
  • Multicultural Education and Tension among Diverse Groups
  • The Nature of Culture in the United States
  • The Social Construction of Categories
  • The Dimensions of Multicultural Education
  • Culture in Society and in Educational Practices / Frederick Erickson
  • Culture: An Overview
  • Alternative Definitions and Conceptions of Culture
  • Cultural Issues in Education and Society
  • Teaching and Learning Multiculturally
  • Conclusion: On Diversity of Tongues and Their Educational Potential
  • Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in the Classroom / Carl A. Grant, Christine E. Sleeter
  • Race, Class, Gender, Language, Disability, and Classroom Life
  • Approaches to Multicultural Education
  • Ms. Julie Wilson and Her Approach To Teaching
  • Social Class and Religion
  • Inner Cities, Affluent Suburbs, and Unequal Educational Opportunity / Jean Anyon
  • Differences between Affluent Suburban and Inner-City-Schooling
  • Consequences of These Differences
  • What Teachers Can Do
  • To Make a Difference
  • Religious Diversity and Education / James K. Uphoff
  • Definitions of Religion
  • Religious Diversity in the United States
  • Educational Implications
  • Gender
  • Gender Bias: From Colonial America to Today's Classrooms / David Sadker, Myra Sadker.