Social workers have worked with colleagues from other disciplines since the early days of
the profession; yet, they were without clear models to guide this interdisciplinary work. The …

The story of life in inner-city America and the education of its people is often recounted as a
tragedy; the ending is often predictable and usually dire, highlighting deficiency, failure, and …

Names: Banks, James A., author. Title: An introduction to multicultural education/James A.
Banks, University of Washington, Seattle. Description: Sixth edition.| Boston: Pearson …

In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have
been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning …

Deficit thinking refers to the notion that students, particularly low income minority students,
fail in school because they and their families experience deficiencies that obstruct the …

The combination of Afrocentric students in Eurocentric schools results in a conflict of cultures
that places black students at risk. Although schools endorse societal beliefs concerning …

This book consists of articles and papers written over a 10-year period that examine issues,
concepts, perspectives, and possibilities for educating citizens in a pluralistic democratic …

This book is designed to help preservice and inservice educators clarify the philosophical
and definitional issues related to pluralistic education, and design and implement effective …

The ninth edition of The Sociology of Education examines the field in rare breadth by
incorporating a diverse range of theoretical approaches and a distinct sociological lens in its …

In Teaching Democracy, Walter Parker makes a unique and thoughtful contribution to the hot
debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favor a cultural literacy …