Multicultural Education Issues and Perspectives

1. Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals.2. Culture in Society and in Educational Practices.3. Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in the Classroom.4. Inner Cities, Affluent Suburbs, and Unequal Educational Opportunities.5. Religious Diversity and Education Additional Essay: American Muslims: Cousins and Strangers.6. Gender Bias: From Colonial America to Today's Classrooms.7. Classrooms for Diversity: Rethinking Curriculum and Pedagogy.8. Transforming the Curriculum: Teaching about Women of Color.9. Educational Equality for Students of Color.10. Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform.11. The Colorblind Perspective in School: Causesand Consequences.12. Language Diversity and Education.13. Educational Equality for Students with Disabilities.14. School Inclusion and Multicultural Issues in Special Education.15. Teaching Gifted Students in a Multicultural Society.16. School Reform and Student Learning: AMulticultural Perspective.17. Parents and Teachers: Partners in School Reform. Appendix: Multicultural Resources.Glossary.Contributors.Index.Banks, James A. is the author of 'Multicultural Education Issues and Perspectives', published 2002 under ISBN 9780471228134 and ISBN 0471228133.