Interview of Christine Sleeter on Multicultural Education: Past, Present, and Key Future Directions

This is an interview of Christine Sleeter on her work in multicultural education over four decades. Links to videos of this interview are available in the Appendix after the references. Transcriptions and videos of Dr. Sleeter’s interview provide plain-spoken content for teacher educators, school administrators, and teachers interested in advancing multicultural education and its critical and practical translation into public school classrooms. The main topics covered in this interview are: (a) the “origins” of multicultural education, (b) the basics of multicultural teaching in student and community relationships, (c) advice for new teachers coming into the profession, (d) discussions of White racism and what White teachers can do, and (e) the new social movement on ethnic studies curriculum. Broadly speaking, this interview provides a plain-spoken account of multicultural education’s past, present, and key future directions from Christine Sleeter, one of the field’s founding and most committed members

Portrayals of the Holocaust in English history textbooks, 1991–2016: continuities, challenges and concerns

This study examines portrayals of the Holocaust in a sample of 21 secondary school history textbooks published in England between 1991 and 2016. Evaluated against internationally recognized criteria and guidelines, the content of most textbooks proved very problematic. Typically, textbooks failed to provide clear chronological and geographical frameworks and adopted simplistic Hitler-centric, perpetrator-oriented narratives. Furthermore, textbooks paid limited attention to pre-war Jewish life, the roots of antisemitism, the complicity of local populations and collaborationist regimes, and the impact of the Holocaust on people across Europe. Based on these critical findings, the article concludes by offering initial recommendations for textbook improvement

Multicultural Education Past, Present, and Future: Struggles for Dialog and Power-Sharing

Using Kymlicka’s analysis of conflicts between “imperatives of state control” and “objectives of social movements,” I draw on my experiences with multicultural education to extrapolate some trends from the past and present that may inform the future. After briefly describing the origins of multicultural education (mainly within the United States), I situate struggles over education in the context of the global expansion of neoliberalism, critique “neoliberal multicultural education,” then briefly describe some efforts that push back. This essay concludes with four recommendations for moving forward

Revista de educación

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Critical Multiculturalism: Theory and Praxis

Critical multiculturalism has emerged over the last decade as a direct challenge to liberal or benevolent forms of multicultural education. By integrating and advancing various critical theoretical threads such as anti-racist education, critical race theory, and critical pedagogy, critical multiculturalism has offered a fuller analysis of oppression and institutionalization of unequal power relations in education. But what do these powerful theories really mean for classroom practice and specific disciplines? Edited by two leading authorities on multicultural education, Critical Multiculturalism: Theory and Praxis brings together international scholars of critical multiculturalism to directly and illustratively address what a transformed critical multicultural approach to education might mean for teacher education and classroom practice. Providing both contextual background and curriculum specific subject coverage ranging from language arts and mathematics to science and technology, each chapter shows how critical multiculturalism relates to praxis. As a watershed in the further development of critical multicultural approaches to education, this timely collection will be required reading for all scholars, educators and practitioners of multicultural education.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/fac_books/1046/thumbnail.jp

Teaching with Vision: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Standards-Based Classrooms

In Teaching with Vision, two respected scholars in teaching for social justice have gathered teachers from across the country to describe rich examples of extraordinary practice. This collection showcases the professional experience and wisdom of classroom teachers who have been navigating standards- and test-driven teaching environments in California and New York while maintaining their vision of what teaching can be. Representing diverse backgrounds, schools, grade levels, subject areas, and specialties, these teachers talk personally about their practice, their challenges, and how they learned to maintain a social and pedagogical vision for their work. This book is essential reading for new teachers who are struggling to make their teaching inspiring, creative, and culturally responsive, especially those who are working in less than supportive environments. This practical resource for pre- and inservice teachers: Examines the struggle between grassroots, culturally responsive teaching and a top-down, teach-by-the-numbers approach. Shows teachers constructing math curriculum, history units, and writing projects grounded in their students’ lives and the world beyond the classroom. Offers both an antidote to standardization and a source of inspiration for public school teachers, teacher educators, students, and parents.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/fac_books/1055/thumbnail.jp

Creating Solidarity Across Diverse Communities: International Perspectives in Education

In this unique and timely volume, experts from around the globe come together to examine what solidarity in multicultural societies means and how it might be built. With a variety of analytical perspectives and findings, the authors present original research conducted in the United States, New Zealand, Spain, France, Chile, Mexico, and India. Educators will recognize similarities between the issues raised by the authors with those they face in their own places of work, helping them to better understand conflicts about diversity and take steps toward building solidarity in their own schools and communities. Demonstrating the commonality of purpose across the globe to connect schools and teachers with the communities they serve, this book offers avenues for bringing diverse understandings together to bridge antagonism and fear.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/fac_books/1052/thumbnail.jp

Culture, Difference, and Power, Revised Edition

Recalling the dynamic, responsive, and interactive nature of teaching, this electronic book features 16 chapters with an Instructor’s Manual illustrating how to use them in 3 different courses. It includes: 45 original readings by Christine Sleeter, plus 34 additional texts that can be used on screen or printed in PDF form. 80 video clips that feature 5 classrooms, 7 teachers, 1 school leadership team, 5 noted theorists, and 2 artists. 8 interactive quizzes. 40 guides for investigating community, school, and classroom issues. 10 guides for examining oneself as a cultural being. Guidance in translating the community and self-investigations into pedagogy. Hundreds of pictures, animated cartoons, and diagrams. Over 500 references accessible through a user-friendly search engine.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/fac_books/1057/thumbnail.jp