Multicultural Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Practice What You Teach

   Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets

   By Bree Picower

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   Many teachers enter the profession with a desire to "make a difference." But given who most teachers are, where they come from, and what pressure they feel to comply with existing school policies, how can they take up this charge? Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of educators...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. Cultural Exclusion in China

   State Education, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference

   By Lin Yi

   Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

   Ethnic minorities form a very substantial proportion of the population of China, with over 100 million people in 55 formally designated minority groups inhabiting over 60% of the country’s land area. Poverty and economic inequality of minority groups are widely-recognised problems. However, as this...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation

   Children and Young People in Their Social Contexts

   Edited by Claudio Baraldi, Vittorio Iervese

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood. Childhood studies have recently underlined an alternate way to look at children, starting from the consideration that...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Unlikely Allies in the Academy

   Women of Color and White Women in Conversation

   Edited by Karen L. Dace

   Unlikely Allies in the Academy brings the voices of women of Color and White women together for much-overdue conversations about race. These well-known contributors use narrative to expose their stories, which are at times messy and always candid. However, the contributors work through the...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context

   Edited by Alister Cumming

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book presents results from a four-year project addressing the central question: What factors, challenges, and contexts contribute to and constrain literacy achievement among at-risk adolescent learners with culturally diverse backgrounds? Researchers consider the importance of several,...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation

   The New Empathy and Social Justice

   By Nadine Dolby

   Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation builds on the legacy of social justice multicultural education, while recognizing the considerable challenges of reaching today’s college students. By drawing on breakthrough research in two fields – neuroscience and animal studies – Nadine...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Considering Trilingual Education

   By Kathryn Henn-Reinke

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Based in case studies conducted in the US, Europe, and Latin America, this book explores the feasibility and benefits of trilingual/ multilingual education in the United States. Currently, there are few programs in the country of this nature, as educators tend to conclude that English-language...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Religion, Education, Dialogue and Conflict

   Perspectives on Religious Education Research

   Edited by Robert Jackson

   Religion, Education, Dialogue and Conflict analyses the European Commission-funded REDCo project, which addressed the question of how religions might contribute to dialogue or conflict in Europe. Researchers in education from eight countries – the UK, Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
9. Educating for Diversity and Social Justice

   By Amanda Keddie

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Educating for Diversity and Social Justice foregrounds the personal stories of educators who are engaging the space of schooling as a site of possibility for realizing the goals of social justice. It is a book inspired by a vision of education as a practice of freedom where young people –...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. Faculty Diversity

    Removing the Barriers, 2nd Edition

    By JoAnn Moody

    Why do we see so little progress in diversifying faculty at America’s colleges, universities, and professional schools? This book explores this important question and provides steps for hastening faculty diversity. Drawing on her extensive consultant practice and expertise as well as research and...

    Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge