Human diversity in education : an integrative approach

By: Cushner, KennethContributor(s): McClelland, Averil | Safford, Philip LMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1992Description: xviii, 358 p. : illISBN: 9780070149984; 0070149984Subject(s): Multicultural education | Individual differences in children | Sex differences in educationDDC classification: 370.19341
Contents:
Pt.1 Human diversity: a problem and an opportunity -- Human diversity and education: an overview -- The culture learning process -- Analyzing intercultural interaction -- Communicating across culture -- Influences on learning. Pt.2 Human diversity: policy and practice -- Pluralism and educational policy: a brief history -- Multicultural and bilingual education -- Exceptionality in the context of diversity -- The experience of gender: what it means to be male and female in society -- Expanding educational boundaries. Pt.3 Human diversity : emerging theory and practice -- The emerging educational community -- The transformation of curriculum -- The transformation of pedagogy -- The transformation of school culture.
Summary: A discussion of the human diversity found in schools: gender, racial, ethnic, class, language and handicap. It stresses the socialization process: how individuals become functioning group members and how conditioning produces barriers to interacting with those who are "different"
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Pt.1 Human diversity: a problem and an opportunity --
Human diversity and education: an overview --
The culture learning process --
Analyzing intercultural interaction --
Communicating across culture --
Influences on learning. Pt.2 Human diversity: policy and practice --
Pluralism and educational policy: a brief history --
Multicultural and bilingual education --
Exceptionality in the context of diversity --
The experience of gender: what it means to be male and female in society --
Expanding educational boundaries. Pt.3 Human diversity : emerging theory and practice --
The emerging educational community --
The transformation of curriculum --
The transformation of pedagogy --
The transformation of school culture.

A discussion of the human diversity found in schools: gender, racial, ethnic, class, language and handicap. It stresses the socialization process: how individuals become functioning group members and how conditioning produces barriers to interacting with those who are "different"

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