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Turn challenges into opportunities

With this outstanding collection of chapters by leading scholars and researchers in the field, you can develop the knowledge and skills needed to maximize the opportunities that diversity offers while minimizing its challenges. You’ll explore current and emerging research, concepts, debates, and teaching strategies for educating students from different cultural, racial, ethnic, language, gender, social class, and religious groups.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #478732 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

From the Back Cover
Updated with a new feature on High Stakes Testing by Jay P. Heubert and Robert M. Hauser

Turn challenges into opportunities

With this outstanding collection of chapters by leading scholars and researchers in the field, you can develop the knowledge and skills needed to maximize the opportunities that diversity offers while minimizing its challenges. You’ll explore current and emerging research, concepts, debates, and teaching strategies for educating students from different cultural, racial, ethnic, language, gender, social-class, and religious groups.

 Featuring contributions by:

Cherry A. McGee Banks • James A. Banks • Jill Bevan-Brown • Johnnella E. Butler • Rodney A. Cavenaugh • Frederick Erickson • Sara C. Ernsbarger • Donna Y. Ford • Geneva Gay • Carl A. Grant • Beth Harry • Robert M. Hauser • Jay P. Heubert • William L. Heward • Sonia Nieto • Caroline Hodges Persell • Charles H. Lippy • Luanna H. Meyer • Carlos J. Ovando • David Sadker • Myra Sadker • Mara Sapon-Shevin • Christine E. Sleeter • Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault • Janet Ward Schofield

 About the Editors

James A. Banks is Russell F. Stark University Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is past President of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a member of the National Academy of Education.

 Cherry A. McGee Banks is professor of education at the University of Washington, Bothell. She is the co-author of Teaching Strategies for the Social Studies: Decision-Making and Citizen Action, and is the author of Improving Multicultural
Education: Lessons From the Intergroup Education Movement.

About the Author
James A. Banks is Russell F. Stark University Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is past President of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a member of the National Academy of Education.

Cherry A. McGee Banks is professor of education at the University of Washington, Bothell. She is the co-author of Teaching Strategies for the Social Studies: Decision-Making and Citizen Action, and is the author of Improving Multicultural
Education: Lessons From the Intergroup Education Movement.

Customer Reviews

Excellent tool for a touchy topic
I've used this book teaching 10 classes in Multicultural Education for California State University at Hayward. It covers some "hot spots" like gender, special education, race, and social class. I've never had a student who expressed dislike for the book. It provokes dissent, emotions, and great discussions but maintains a well researched and professional style. I would recommend it to any professor of multicultural education and I eagerly await the 4th edition, coming this July!

Good book
Good book discussing some basic issues facing teachers in multicultural settings (or any setting for that matter).

If you are already familiar with the topics covered then it'll be a refresher. If you are oblivious to some of these ideas then this will be a good book for you.

This was a required book in my course but I bought the 5th edition as it is nearly identical, they added and removed a nonessential, testing insert for the 6th edition. I saved a lot of money by going with the previous edition which is important for many students.

Transparently Bogus Faux-Scholarship
Banks is incapable of writing a coherent sentence or formulating a coherent argument. For some reason or other, at some point in his life he either subscribed or pretended to subscribe to the dumbed-down Gramscianism taught in Ed-schools and decided to write books regurgitating left-wing theories which he barely understands, misrepresenting them, and then misrepresenting (and failing to comprehend) the views of any whith whom he disagrees. He constantly produces false choices, non-sequiters, and even gets basic facts wrong. The result is incomprehensible, meaningless gobbledegook that no one should read except as a study on the fatuity and illegitimacy of the education academy.