Full Description
Multicultural Curriculum is a collection of original essays brought together to develop new theories and meaningful praxis to build a new paradigm for teaching multiculturalism in today's classroom. The impressive list of contributors shows how the current epistemological and pedagogical practices that are designed to forward multiculturalism actually serves to essentialize cultures--the antithesis of what multicultural education is designed to accomplish. The editors offer alternative theories, classroom teaching methods, and policies that are designed to promote true cultural understanding and equality.
Contents
INTRODUCTION Rethinking Multiculturalism and Curricular Knowledge for the Twenty-first Century PART I: THEORY Social Epistemology as a Critical Philosophy of Multiculturalism 1 What Puts the Culture in Multiculturalism? 2 An Analysis of Culture, Government, and the Politics of Mexican Identity 3 World Institutions, World Dispositions: Curriculum in the World-Cultural Institution of Schooling 4. Globalizing Pedagogies: Power, Resentment, and the Re-narration of Difference 5. Racing toward Educational Reform: The Politics of Markets and Standards 6. Epistemologies of Whiteness: Transgressing and Transforming Pedagogical Knowledge PART II: PRACTICE 7. Cautions against Canonizing (An)Other Literature 8. New Stories: Rethinking History and Lives 9. Multicultural Discourse in Teaching Education: The Case of One Integrated Teaching Methods Block 10 . Beyond Eurocentrism: Implications of Social Epistemology for Mathematics Education 11. Is the Multiculturalization of Mathematics Doing Us More Harm than Good? III: POLICY 12. Multiculturalism and the Academic Organization of Knowledge 1. The Haunting of Multicultural Epistemology and Pedagogy Nancy Lesko and Leslie Rebecca Bloom 14. Hybrid Discourse Practices and the Production of Classroom (Multi)Cultures 15. Reaping the Harvest of Shame: Racism and Teaching in a Time of Radical Economic Insecurity (Lessons from a High School Mass Media Course)
