multicultural education

Hands-on activities to create a supportive environment for a multicultural classroom and an apprectiation for diversity.

"Howard shares his personal journey of transformation, presents a conceptual framework that illuminates White dominance, and explicates the journey of White identity development. Howard's text also scaffolds students when he asks them to explore and examine the subtle and institutional manifestations of race and racism in their personal lives and in the larger society"--Page xi.

Defines some of the issues surrounding cultural differences and social learning in the United States; presenting a model for teaching social skills, discussing the specific cultural groups of Asian-Americans, African-Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics; and considering the teaching implications of gender.

Presents information on how culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships, and provides ideas to build students' learner operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners and more.

Offers an assortment of instructional strategies that are designed to help educators address the needs of students from diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Presents a comprehensive manual for middle and high school level educators that provides strategies for different stages of literacy instruction and contains over one hundred lesson ideas for various degrees of learning.

Presents a comprehensive guide to defining and teaching folk literature in the elementary and middle school classroom and provides an overview of traditional literature and an understanding of folk and fairy tales, fables, myths, and legends as well as cross-cultural literature.