Multicultural Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners

   Instructional Strategies and Assessment Tools for School Psychologists

   By Holly S. Hudspath-Niemi, Mary Lou Conroy

   Series: School-Based Practice in Action

   There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners increases school psychologists’ knowledge...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. Diversity, Intercultural Encounters, and Education

   Edited by Susana Gonçalves, Markus A. Carpenter

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows, unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society. The scope of the book’s theme is global, addressing diversity and identity, intercultural encounters and conflict, and...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies

   The Case of Black Academic Underachievement

   By Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. School Psychology and Social Justice

   Conceptual Foundations and Tools for Practice

   Edited by David Shriberg, Samuel Y. Song, Antoinette Halsell Miranda, Kisha Radliff

   School psychology practice does not exist in a vacuum and is not value-neutral. As the role and function of the school psychologist continues to evolve and expand, social justice provides a needed real-world framework for school psychology students, practitioners, supervisors, and professors to...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Understanding White Privilege

   Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race, 2nd Edition

   By Frances Kendall

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   Knowingly and unknowingly we all grapple with race every day. Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race, power, and privilege in both organizations and private life. It offers an unflinching look at how ignorance can perpetuate privilege, and offers practical and...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
6. Ability Profiling and School Failure

   One Child's Struggle to be Seen as Competent, 2nd Edition

   By Kathleen M. Collins

   Ability Profiling and School Failure, Second Edition explores the social and contextual forces that shape the appearance of academic ability and disability and how these forces influence the perception of academic underachievement of minority students. At the book’s core is the powerful case study...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
7. Family, Community, and Higher Education

   Edited by Toby S. Jenkins

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book explores social topics and experiences that illustrate the various ways in which the family unit influences and impacts college students. In the text, the authors not only explore family memories, but also challenge the traditional lack of inclusion and appreciation for “family” as...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners

   2nd Edition

   By Gladis Kersaint, Denisse R. Thompson, Mariana Petkova

   Series: Teaching English Language Learners across the Curriculum

   Today's mathematics classrooms increasingly include students for whom English is a second language. Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides readers a comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face English language learners (ELLs) and ways in which educators might...

   Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
9. Education and the Nation State

   The selected works of S. Gopinathan

   By S. Gopinathan

   Series: World Library of Educationalists

   In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism

    By Anita Harris

    Series: Critical Youth Studies

    Unlike as with previous generations, diversity and multiculturalism are engrained in the lives of today’s urban youth. Within their culturally diverse urban environments, young people from different backgrounds now routinely encounter one another in their everyday lives and negotiate and contest...

    Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge