Comprehensive Multicultural Education

About our author Christine Iverson Bennett is Professor Emerita in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Indiana University. She earned her B.A. in Sociology at Northwestern University, her M.A. in Social Studies Education at Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in Social Science Education with specializations in ethnic studies at the University of Texas in Austin. Prior to her doctoral studies she taught high school history and government courses in San Jose and Los Angeles. During her thirty-one years at Indiana University, Professor Bennett developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in multicultural education; and initiated and directed The Teacher as Decision Maker program for career changers, The Research Institute on Teacher Education, and Project TEAM, a program to recruit and support students from underrepresented minorities. She also served as director of Indiana University's Exchange Program with Hangzhou University and conducted seminars for faculty at Al-Ain University in the United Arab Emirates and for visiting international scholars at Indiana University. Her research publications focus on the impact of multicultural social studies, classroom climates in desegregated schools, racial inequities in school discipline, racial issues in higher education, and multicultural teacher education. She can be reached at bennettc@indiana.edu

Brief Contents Part I: The Case for Multicultural Education

Multicultural Schools: What, Why, and How
Culture, Race, and the Contexts for Multicultural Teaching
Race Relations and the Nature of Prejudice
Affirming Religious Pluralism in U.S. Schools and Society

Part II: Roots of Cultural Diversity in the United States: The Conflicting Themes of Assimilation and Pluralism

Immigration and Cultural Pluralism: Anglo-European American Perspectives
Colonialism, Involuntary Immigration, and the American Dream: American Indian and African American Perspectives
Colonialism, Immigration, and the American Dream: Latino Perspectives
Contemporary Immigration and the American Dream: Asian American Perspectives
U.S. Immigrants from the Middle East: Arab American Perspectives

Part III: Reaching All Learners: Perspectives on Culture, Gender, Class, and Exceptionalities

The Promise of Culturally Competent Teaching
How Does Gender Make a Difference?
The Impact of Poverty on American Children and Youth
The Challenges of Special Education in Inclusive Classrooms

Part IV. Teaching in a Multicultural Society

Teaching in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms, James S. Damico and Suriati Abas
Curriculum Transformation: A Multicultural Curriculum Development Model for Teacher Decision Making

Appendix A: Curriculum Transformation: Sample Lessons Appendix B: Linking Global and Multicultural Education: A Diagram Name Index Subject Index