Research In Multicultural Education: From The Margins To The Mainstream (wisconsin Series Of Teacher Education (hardcover))

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.\ "This book is written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help scholars think through some of the problems and issues inherent in doing research in this area. Presently, multicultural education is receiving major national and international attention, not only within the educational community, but within society at large. Demographic changes in society are requiring people who never had to deal with one another to work together. This contact among and between different groups of people is taking place in political, social and economic contexts that are dominated by an ever-widening gulf between the 'haves' and 'have nots'." "Schools now more than in the recent past are being required to respond to the challenge of educating different groups of students about each other and to making schooling equal and equitable for all. Educators at all levels and in all roles are having to confront the racism, sexism and classism that they have, in a large part, ignored but that has continued to hound them with an increasing intensity. Quality research is needed to help educators understand and resolve this quagmire and to help schools become portals to life opportunities and choices for all students. This volume is intended to facilitate the production of this research." "Whilst this volume is not a primer for doing multicultural research, it includes discussions about many important areas that must be considered when doing multicultural research. It responds to the felt needs of a number of scholars, who have a serious interest in researching and writing in this area; these researchers are often frustrated because there is a lack of discussion, directions and support for doing multicultural research. Similarly, these scholars have criticized the paucity of multicultural education research studies. This book is an attempt to respond to both of these valid criticisms. It offers chapters about doing research in multicultural education and makes contributions to the research base in multicultural education by including chapters that are themselves studies in multicultural education and it critiques national and state multicultural policy initiates."--Jacket 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 It is slowly becoming standard for schools in the USA to take explicitly into account the ascribed characteristics (race, class, gender, and disability) of their students and the human diversity in society. First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company