Human Diversity in Education: An Integrative Approach is a research-based, comprehensive text designed to provide an introduction to multicultural education and diversity in society. The text prepares future teachers for the wide diversity of students that they are certain to meet in their classrooms, schools, and communities. It provides an updated and broad treatment of the various forms of human diversity found in today’s schools including nationality, ethnicit… More >>
Human Diversity in Education: An Integrative Approach
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#1 by Reading In Georgia on January 19, 2010 - 12:01 am
Yawn. My wife had to get this book for a class she is being forced to take for her teaching certification. So she doesn’t have to read alone, I let her read the book out loud and let me tell you…what a pile of garbage. This book is all about accepting OTHER people’s culture and tolerance, tolerance, tolerance. It’s basically telling teachers how to teach students to be a doormat and be walked on by anyone and everyone who is not like them.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by z hayes on January 19, 2010 - 12:16 am
I am not really a fan of textbooks, and many that I have been prescribed to read have been rather dry in content and delivery. This is not the case with “Human Diversity in Education” which was a recommended text in my grad class. The writing style is not at all dry, in fact, it makes for engaging and informative reading, and I breezed through it quite quickly. The text is organized quite effectively, covering a multitude of issues to do with diversity and multiculturalism:
Chapter 1 deals with education in a changing society, providing ideological perspectives on multicultural education.
Chapter 2 covers the historical and theoretical perspectives to do with multicultural education.
Chapter 3 explores culture and the culture-learning process, with various definitions of culture, socializing agents, etc.
Chapter 4 covers classrooms and schools as cultural crossroads
Chapter 5 focuses on intercultural development.
Chapter 6 is on creating classrooms that address race and ethnicity.
Chapter 7 deals with the classroom as a global community, covering curriculum transformation ,among others.
Chapter 8 is on developing learning communities, learning and learning style.
Chapter 9 explores religious pluralism in secular classrooms.
Chapter 10 discusses collaborative classrooms, and also gender and sexual orientation.
Chapter 11 explores the importance of age and developmental status in creating developmentally appropriate classrooms.
Chapter 12 discusses the inclusive classroom.
Chapter 13 looks at the role of social class and social status in teaching and learning.
At the end of each chapter, there is a summary, a chapter review, key terms,active exercise, reflective questions, endnotes, and references. The book also has a glossary, name index, and subject index.
All in all, this is a great resource and go-to text for pre-service teachers, educators, and anyone who has an interest in the issue of diversity as it applies to the field of education and more. Insightful, informative, and interesting!
Rating: 5 / 5
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Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Daniel Rogalski on January 19, 2010 - 5:40 am
I have not gotten my book yet and midterms and the first project have already passed.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by A. Christian-Richardson on January 19, 2010 - 8:27 am
I’d say the best reads are college issue teacher text books. The writing in this is actually good, it’s not Harry Potter but I’ve read both my teacher text books for college and haven’t been overly bored yet. I took the class for this text on line, haven’t had a problem with it yet. Not convoluted or overly verbose. Good photos and graphs. Small chapters as well, always a plus.
Rating: 5 / 5