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This forceful book by a leading psycholinguistic researcher, demolishes a host of myths about bilinguals, bilingualism, and bilingual education. Hakuta argues that popular views and scholarly research mirror larger issues in the society. Direct, instructive, and eminently readable, this volume will be valuable for those who want to know whether to raise their children bilingually, how to decide on a bilingual education policy, or what is known about...

The Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education has been created to provide educators with an easy to use single volume reference work. The encyclopedia consists of more than 400 terms, phrases, concepts, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, significant contributes to the American macro culture from the country's various racial and or ethnic backgrounds and key even and count cases related to multicultural education. Arranged alphabetically, each entry is define...

This text utilizes a three stage approach to classroom behaviour management to assist teachers to avoid behaviour problems, manage those that cannot be avoided and resolve those that cannot be managed.

Losing Our Language reveals what the once benign, now politically correct ideology of multiculturalism has come to mean for elementary school reading curriculums in the 1990s. In this book, Dr. Stotsky details the changes that have been made over the past decade in cultural content and teaching strategies used for reading instruction in elementary schools. She asserts that under the guise of an overzealous, culturally diverse agenda, intellectual...

Offering a conceptual framework and practical strategies for teacher preparation in schools with increasingly diverse racial and ethnic student populations, this book presents a coherent approach to educating culturally responsive teachers. The authors focus on the importance of recruiting and preparing a diverse teaching force, as they propose a vision for restructuring the teacher education curriculum, reconceiving the pedagogy used to prepare prospective...

This text summarizes for teachers and policy-makers what has been learned over the past three decades about educating students in schools who have come from homes in which the language back-ground is other than English.

This book provides teachers and trainers with sensitive and practical help in working effectively with groups of culturally diverse learners. Raymond J. Wlodkowski and Margery B. Ginsberg combine their respective expertise in motivation and multiculturalism to go beyond the usual rhetoric on promoting diversity, offering real-world guidance and suggestions for successful teaching in today's changing classroom environment. Using a motivational framework...

The increasing ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, and language diversity in nations throughout the world is forcing educators and policymakers to rethink existing notions of citizenship and nationality. To experience cultural democracy and freedom, a nation must be unified around a set of democratic values such as justice and equality that balance unity and diversity and protect the rights of diverse groups. Diversity and Citizenship Education:...