Diversity and Motivation: Culturally Responsive Teaching - Softcover

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Raymond J. Wlodkowski is a licensed psychologist and an award-winning teacher. The author and coauthor of numerous books on the topics of motivation and learning, he currently serves as professor in the School for Professional Studies and is the director of the Center for the Study of Accelerated Learning at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Margery B. Ginsberg is an educational researcher, author, and consultant. She currently advises states and school districts on designing and implementing comprehensive school reform. Ginsberg's work integrates student and teacher motivation as the basis for transformation. She has developed comprehensive school improvement initiatives throughout the United Stated, and in Japan and Germany.

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"At long last here is a book that provides both the conceptual framework for culturally responsive teaching and useful instructional strategies that promote a community-centered approach to teaching and learning. Faculty in multicultural settings will find this book invaluable."
Laura I. Rendon, professor of educational leadership and policy, Arizona State University

"Diversity and Motivation is a wonderful integration of helpful conceptual frameworks and practical strategies that even the most experienced teacher will value. It is a resource that I will use again and again."
Beverly Daniel Tatum, president, Spelman College

"Every day college and university faculty ask themselves the question, 'How can we become more effective teachers of a culturally diverse student body?' This book provides the most comprehensive and useful answer that I have ever read. Drawing upon years of experience and research with students from various cultural backgrounds, Wlodkowski and Ginsberg offer faculty a remarkable integration of theory and practice full of the kind of insights and strategies they can use today."
Michael Nettles, professor of education, University of Michigan and executive director, Fredrick D. Patterson Research Institute, United Negro College Fund