Defining and Designing Multiculturalism, livre ebook

An activist group works to bring a multicultural education program to an urban public school system.

An activist group works to bring a multicultural education program to an urban public school system.

Just outside a major urban center on the east coast of the United States an activist group struggled to create a system-wide multicultural education program. Through a seven-year qualitative study, Pepi Leistyna documents and interprets-via a critical pedagogical lens-this group's work with professional development, curriculum and instruction, faculty and staff, and community outreach. Through engaging examples, stories, and participant voices, Leistyna offers a comprehensive, accessible ethnography with implications for others who might attempt similar sorts of systemic change.

Foreword
Multiculturalism Revisited: Pepi Leistyna's Politics of the Concrete
Peter McLaren
Introduction
Part One: Theoretically and Historically Contextualizing the Study
1. Critical Mulicultural Education: What is It?
2. A History of Changeton and its Public Schools
3. Facing Oppression: Youth Voices from the Front
4. The Formation of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee (CSC): Its Basic Processes, Functions, and Structures
Part Two: The Work of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee
5. The Development of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee's Mission Statement
6. Professional Development: Raising Consciousness among the Faculty and Staff
7. Curriculum Development and Instruction
8. Diversifying the Faculty and Staff
9. Creating a Partnership between the School and the Public
Part Three: The Impact of Multicultural Education in Changeton over the Years
10. In the Aftermath: A Dialogue with Three Changeton Teachers
11. Two Letters to Changeton Educators
12. Challenges for the Future
Appendix / Research Methodology
Notes
Bibiliography