Full Description
Multicultural education is a thriving - though sometimes controversial and increasingly contested - field of study and research. Its major aim and purpose has been described as to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds to help them acquire the knowledge, aptitudes, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society. Multicultural education draws its content, concepts, paradigms, and theories from specialized interdisciplinary domains such as ethnic and women's studies (and from history and the social and behavioural sciences), as well as by interrogating, challenging, and reinterpreting the work of other established disciplines and applying it to pedagogy and curriculum development in educational settings.
As academic thinking about and around multicultural education continues to develop, this new title in the Routledge series, Major Themes in Education, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the field's vast literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Compiled by David Gillborn, editor of the leading international journal, Race, Ethnicity, and Education, this new collection of major works brings together in four volumes the canonical and the best cutting-edge scholarship. The editor has drawn on the most important and influential research to create a one-stop 'mini library' which describes and analyses the nature, scope, and principal issues of global multicultural education today.
Multicultural Education is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students - as well as by educational policy-makers - as a vital research and pedagogic tool.
Contents
Volume I: Theory and Philosophy. Key Concepts: Race and Racism. From Multicultural Education to Intercultural and Anti-Oppressive Education. Critical Theory. Post-Colonial and Indigenous Perspectives. Globalization and 'the War on Terror'. Volume II: Identities and Intersections. Race, Racism, and Identities. Race, Class, and Poverty. Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Race and Dis/ability. Volume III: Policies and Practices. Policy and the Politics of Race in Education. Teaching and Learning. Teacher Education. Structures and Selection. Breaking Boundaries or Reinforcing Inequities? Volume IV: Methods and Meaning. Race and Epistemology. Whiteness: White Studies and Studying White People. Quantitative Approaches. Race and Space. Critical Qualitative Research.
