Full Description
Understanding the Whole Student presents a holistic approach to multicultural educational issues by viewing them in terms of the student as a physical, psychosocial, cognitive, ethical, and spiritual being. Conversely, these levels of a student's being cannot be seen apart from the student's cultural identities. This unique book demonstrates that, in a pluralistic democracy, good teaching and deep learning must be multicultural and must look at the student as a whole being, not just as a future worker in a transnational corporate economy as is currently the case with both neo-liberal and neo-conservative programs for 'reform.' The authors contend that good education is, and must be, multicultural in order to gain a deeper perspective on issues under analysis in the classroom through the sharing and negotiating of many different cultural perspectives.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What is Holistic Multicultural Education and Why Should It Matter?
1 Culture, Language and the Classroom
2 President Lincoln Visits Mayfield High School: Six Students' Perspectives
3 The Sensorimotor Domain
4 The Psychosocial Domain
5 The Cognitive Domain
6 The Ethico-Spiritual Domain
Conclusion: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
Bibliography
Index
