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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED300474 AUTHOR: Banks, James A.
TITLE: Multiethnic Education: Theory and Practice. Second
Edition.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1988
NOTE: 312 p.
ABSTRACT: This book is designed to help preservice and
inservice educators clarify the philosophical and
definitional issues related to pluralistic education, and
design and implement effective teaching strategies that
reflect ethnic diversity, and prepare sound guidelines for
multiethnic programs and practices. It describes actions
that educators can take to institutionalize educational
programs and practices related to ethnic and cultural
diversity. The book is divided into five parts. Part I
discusses the history, goals, and practices in multiethnic
education. Conceptual issues and problems related to
education, ethnicity, and cultural diversity are the focus
of Part II. The major research and programmatic paradigms
related to ethnicity and education are described. The
philosophical and ideological issues related to ethnicity,
education, and citizenship are discussed in Part III. Part
IV focuses on the curriculum, including efforts made in the
last two decades to reform it, the nature and goals of a
multiethnic curriculum, and how this curriculum can be
reformed to reflect the ethnic characteristics of students.
Planning units that focus on social issues, reducing
prejudice in students, language diversity, and curriculum
guidelines are discussed in Part V. The appendix consists
of an inventory that will help educators to determine the
extent to which their institutions reflect the ethnic
diversity within their society. Figures and graphs
illustrate the data. An index and numerous references are
included. (BJV)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Cultural-Differences; Cultural-Pluralism;
Definitions-; Educational-Improvement;
Educational-Research;
Elementary-Secondary-Education; Models-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cultural-Background; *Curriculum
Development; *Ethnicity-; *Ethnic-Studies; *Multicultural
Education
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