Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education - Softcover

This best-selling text explores the meaning, necessity, and benefits of multicultural education-in a sociopolitical context-for students of all backgrounds. Sonia Nieto and Patty Bode look at how personal, social, political, cultural, and educational factors affect the success or failure of students in today's classroom. Expanding upon the popular case-study approach, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education examines the lives of real students who are affected by multicultural education, or the lack of it. This social justice view of multicultural education encourages teachers to work for social change in their classrooms, schools, and communities.

 

Explore how personal, social, political, cultural, and educational factors affect the success or failure of students in today's classroom in this best-selling text by Sonia Nieto and Patty Bode. Expanding upon the popular case-study approach, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education examines the lives of real students who are affected by multicultural education, or the lack of it. This social justice view of multicultural education encourages teachers to work for social change in their classrooms, schools, and communities. 

  

New to this Edition

• • NEW! Chapter 7, Understanding Student Learning and School Achievement provides new research on caring, deficit perspectives, and theories on youth activism.

  • NEW! Completely updated references and research supporting the relevance and application of chapter content to today's classrooms.
  • NEW! A new case study of a Native American student that substitutes and updates the previous case study of a Native American student.
  • NEW! A classroom example of how a teacher and her students tackled the issue of Native American mascots to provide students with a concrete case of how teachers and students put multicultural education in practice.
  • NEW! An example of a teacher who exemplifies caring in her pedagogy and curriculum to show readers how caring can be manifested in ways that influence student learning.
  • NEW! A Multicultural Teaching Story about a school organized by teachers that models what multicultural education looks like in an actual school.
  • NEW! Student Self-portraits are displayed in the Part and chapter openers throughout the text.
  • NEW! Multicultural Teaching Story based on  an interview with a former high school math teacher who has helped implement a successful strategy for teaching high school math to all students
  • NEW! About Terminology feature boxes takes former chapter 2, About Terminology and reworks each section to enhance discussion of terminology issues throughout all chapters.