The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Multicultural Education

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David Gillborn, Gloria Ladson-Billings
Psychology Press, 2004 - Education - 265 pages
This unique publication brings together scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the central questions that shape the field of multicultural education. It offers the reader a great opportunity to achieve a real grasp of the subject, facilitating understanding and articulation of key debates, and making important topics, concepts and theories accessible to a broad audience.
The Reader is divided into four sections, covering the ideas that are at the core of contemporary multicultural education; theories, identities, practices and methods. The first section covers some basic conceptual territory and discusses key ideas including 'race', 'multiculturalism' and 'anti-racism'. The second section draws together writing that focuses explicitly on the question of identities, examining the meaning of 'race'. In the third part, the articles look at life inside multi-racial classrooms and consider how racialised and racist processes operate on a day-to-day level. Finally, the fourth section addresses different aspects of educational research.
The editors have assembled a collection of articles of immense scope and pertinence, making this an excellent must-buy resource book for undergraduates, postgraduates. education practitioners, academics and anyone concerned with race equality and multicultural education.
 

Contents

On the theoretical status of the concept of race
7
The American civil rights movement
24
from policy to praxis
35
Just what is critical race theory and whats it doing
49
ideology identity
71
the interactions
84
exploding the myth of the black macho
103
critical pedagogy whiteness studies
117
Critical multicultural education and students perspectives
179
84
198
a collective movement
201
critique and transformation
211
Memory and experience
218
power and pedagogy in educating
225
The myth of neutrality in educational research
243
Conclusion
250

the experiences
139
How white teachers construct race
163
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177
The studies
258
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Gloria Ladson-Billings was a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked for a decade as a teacher and administrator in the Philadelphia Public Schools. She is the author of The Dreamkeepers (Jossey-Bass, 1997).

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