Do caring, trusting human relationships among teachers and students in multicultural classrooms produce higher levels of achievement? Is simply presenting cultural history, literature, and rituals sufficient for multicultural education? Should schools do more for immigrant students than just teach English? In this book Valerie Pang affirms that teachers must develop comprehensive instructional programs based on caring, culture, and community. Pang takes a unique approach to multicultural education, focusing on the ethics of caring and social justice. Her text is reader-friendly and jargon-free with an upbeat, anecdotal, conversational tone and narrative style in order to directly address and encourage the reader to think about complex issues in multicultural teaching. 
Multicultural Education: A Caring-Centered, Reflective Approach provides the practical advice needed for mid- to lower-level, more applied teacher education programs. It asks pre-service teachers to identify and challenge their own biases and values regarding multicultural issues before developing a caring, multiculturally-sensitive teaching program --- one that addresses specific multicultural needs, provides individual and particular feedback to students, and builds a strong sense of family in the classroom. Each copy of the text includes the FREE book, Multicultural Education and the Internet: Intersections and Integrations.

Multicultural Education: A Caring-Centered, Reflective Approach with Internet Guide and PowerWeb

Pang, Valerie Ooka

Education & Teaching

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

This text takes a personalized and practical approach towards multicultural education. Instead of starting with theory and adding classroom applications as secondary content, Multicultural Education starts with the teacher and what the teacher needs to know in order to be an effective multicultural educator. A strong theoretical foundation is interwoven throughout the text in a manner that makes it relevant to the reader. The text’s strong practical approach, along with its reader-friendly and jargon-free upbeat writing style, make it an ideal text for both undergraduate courses (where students want real classroom examples) and graduate courses (where in-service teachers can relate to and learn from the scenarios).

Multicultural Education

Schools & Teaching

Social Studies : People and Places

Children's Books

Gay, Geneva

Boyd, Candy Dawson

Kracht, James B

Geiger, Rita

Geography & Cultures

Scott, Foresman Co.

Equity in Education: Caring, Prejudice Reduction, and Culturally Relevant Teaching

Montezuma Publishing

Struggling to Be Heard: The Unmet Needs of Asian Pacific American Children (Suny Series, the Social Context of Education)

Struggling To Be Heard offers various theoretical frameworks for understanding culture and language diversity in Asian Pacific American young people. The authors weave a unique tapestry integrating curriculum, instruction, mental health issues, language issues, delinquency, policy, disabilities, and cultures. They also offer critical recommendations for teachers, social workers, school psychologists, school administrators, bilingual professionals, and policy makers who work with Asian Pacific American children and youth so they can make a difference in the lives of Asian Pacific American students and address their unmet needs.

Struggling to Be Heard: The Unmet Needs of Asian Pacific American Children (SUNY Series, the Social Context of Education)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

State University of New York Press

About the Author\nValerie Ooka Pang (Ph.D. in Education, University of Washington) is a professor in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. She has taught first and second grade in both rural and urban schools, and is the author of the text, MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: A CARING-CENTERED, REFLECTIVE APPROACH. Dr. Pang was senior editor of STRUGGLING TO BE HEARD: THE UNMET NEEDS OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN CHILDREN, which was awarded honorable mention by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights at Boston University. She has published in a variety of journals including Educational Researcher (an AERA journal), Harvard Educational Review, The Kappan, The Journal of Teacher Education, Oxford University Press Bibliographies, Multicultural Perspectives, Asian American and Pacific Islander Nexus, Action in Teacher Education, Social Education, Theory and Research in Social Education, Multicultural Perspectives, and Multicultural Education. As associate editor of Theory and Research in Social Education from 1998-2002, she worked on pieces that focused on issues of equity, civil rights, culturally relevant teaching, and methodology in social studies. Dr. Pang has consulted with organizations such as Sesame Street, Fox Children's Network, Family Communications (Producers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood), and Scott Foresman. The National Academy and the Spencer Foundation honored her with a postdoc fellowship. She was a senior Fellow for the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University and honored by organizations such as the American Educational Research Association's Standing Committee on the Role and Status of Minorities in Education, National Association for Multicultural Education, and the University of Washington's College of Education.

Diversity and Equity in the Classroom, Loose-Leaf Version

Wadsworth Publishing

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Cengage Learning'

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