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Turning on Learning: Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability

Author: Carl A. Grant and Christine E. Sleeter
Published: 3 Jul 2009

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Synopsis

Learn how to apply the principles of multicultural education in your classroom.

Overview

Put multicultural theory into practice. Theories about diversity don't mean anything until you actually put them into practice. Now with Grant and Sleeter's Fourth Edition of Turning on Learning, you'll learn how to apply the principles of multicultural education in your classroom.

Put multicultural theory into practice! Theories about diversity don't mean anything until you actually put them into practice.

Now with Grant and Sleeter's Fourth Edition of Turning on Learning, you'll learn how to apply the principles of multicultural education in your classroom. This practical lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grant's Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender contains a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans covering a variety of subject areas for grade levels K through 12. The Fourth Edition features additional lesson plans and new resource material. All of the remaining lesson plans were updated.

About the Authors:

Carl Grant is Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University Wisconsin-Madison and Chair of the Publication Committee of the American Education Research Association. He is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education.

Christine Sleeter is Professor Emeritus at California State University-Monterey Bay and Vice President of Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, of the American Educational Research Association.

Paperback: 352 pages

Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (January 13, 2006)

Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471746576
ISBN-13: 978-0471746577

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