A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students.
Author(s): Carl A. Grant
Edition: 1
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 276
Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
1 Research and Multicultural Education: Barriers, Needs and Boundaries......Page 12
2 The Marginalized Discourse of Minority Intellectual Thought......Page 24
3 Multicultural Education......Page 37
4 Reflections on the Researcher in a Multicultural Environment......Page 50
5 Using Quantitative Methods to Explore Multicultural Education......Page 61
6 Using Multiple Strategies to Assess Multicultural Education in a School District......Page 74
7 Manifestations of Inequality......Page 92
8 Culturally Relevant Teaching......Page 108
9 Riding the Wave......Page 125
10 The Language Minority Student and Multicultural Education......Page 144
11 Success Stories......Page 156
12 Relationships Between Home, Community and School:......Page 169
13 Teacher Education Programs and Increasing Minority School Populations......Page 188
14 Schools and Opportunities for Multicultural Contact......Page 206
15 Multicultural Education: Policies and Practices in Teacher Education......Page 220
16 Policy Analysis of State Multicultural Education Programs......Page 242
Notes on Contributors......Page 252
Index......Page 258
