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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348229003321

Titolo

Research and multicultural education : from the margins to the mainstream / / edited by Carl A. Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Washington, D.C. : , : Falmer Press, , 1992

ISBN

1-135-38872-5

1-135-38873-3

1-280-14515-3

0-203-97325-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrantCarl A

Disciplina

370.19/341

370.19341072

Soggetti

Educational anthropology - United States

Multicultural education - Research - United States

Pluralism (Social sciences) - United States

Research

Teachers

Cultural pluralism - Training of - United States

Teachers - United States

Education

Social Sciences

Education, Special Topics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; 1 Research and Multicultural Education: Barriers, Needs and Boundaries; 2 The Marginalized Discourse of Minority Intellectual Thought; 3 Multicultural Education; 4 Reflections on the Researcher in a Multicultural Environment; 5 Using Quantitative Methods to Explore Multicultural Education; 6 Using Multiple Strategies to Assess Multicultural Education in a School District; 7 Manifestations of Inequality; 8 Culturally Relevant Teaching; 9 Riding the Wave; 10 The Language Minority Student and Multicultural



Education; 11 Success Stories

12 Relationships Between Home, Community and School:13 Teacher Education Programs and Increasing Minority School Populations; 14 Schools and Opportunities for Multicultural Contact; 15 Multicultural Education: Policies and Practices in Teacher Education; 16 Policy Analysis of State Multicultural Education Programs; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.