Multicultural Education, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of Difference

Multicultural Education, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of Difference
Author: Christine E. Sleeter
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1995-08-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1438420277

This book explores and expands upon linkages between multicultural education and critical pedagogy, drawing on the shared goal of challenging oppressive social relationships.

Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle

Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle
Author: Henry A. Giroux
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780791400364

Schools have been traditionally defined as institutions of instruction, but the authors of this volume challenge that position in order to generate a new set of cultural categories and constructs through which the nature and process of schooling can be more appropriately understood. Giroux and McLaren develop a theory of schooling that takes into account not only the more traditional relationship between teaching and learning, but also the import of wider cultural dynamics such as language, mass culture, popular culture, the state, theories of readership, ethnographic research, and subcultural studies.

Subtractive Schooling

Subtractive Schooling
Author: Angela Valenzuela
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1438422628

Winner of the 2000 Outstanding Book Award presented by the American Educational Research Association Winner of the 2001 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award Honorable Mention, 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards Subtractive Schooling provides a framework for understanding the patterns of immigrant achievement and U.S.-born underachievement frequently noted in the literature and observed by the author in her ethnographic account of regular-track youth attending a comprehensive, virtually all-Mexican, inner-city high school in Houston. Valenzuela argues that schools subtract resources from youth in two major ways: firstly by dismissing their definition of education and secondly, through assimilationist policies and practices that minimize their culture and language. A key consequence is the erosion of students' social capital evident in the absence of academically oriented networks among acculturated, U.S.-born youth.

Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture

Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture
Author: Peter McLaren
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2002-03-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134922280

This book is a principled, accessible and highly stimulating discussion of a politics of resistance for today. Ranging widely over issues of identity, representation, culture and schooling, it will be required reading for students of radical pedagogy, sociology and political science.

Critical Literacy

Critical Literacy
Author: Maxine Greene
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1993-03-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780791412305

Illustrates the differences and similarities between modernist and postmodernist theories of literacy, and suggests how the best elements of both can be fused to provide a more rigorous conception of literacy that will bring theoretical, ethical, political, and practical benefits. Some of the 14 essays are theoretical, other present case studies of literacy programs for adults and other applications. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Making Choices for Multicultural Education

Making Choices for Multicultural Education
Author: Christine E. Sleeter
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1994
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This leading text examines the meaning of multicultural education from historical and conceptual perspectives. It provides a thorough analysis of the theory and practice of five major approaches to dealing with race, language, social class, gender, disability, and sexual orientation in today's classrooms.

Critical Multicultural Education

Critical Multicultural Education
Author: Christine E. Sleeter
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2024
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807786284

"Over time, many people have come to understand and enact multicultural education in ways that evade grappling directly with racism. This collection addresses this problem with ten articles by Christine Sleeter that explicitly locate multicultural education within critical understandings of race, racism, and colonialism, offering both theoretical and practical discussions of what that means"--

Empowerment through Multicultural Education

Empowerment through Multicultural Education
Author: Christine E. Sleeter
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780791404430

This book reframes questions about student diversity by probing the extent to which society serves the interests of all, and by examining the empowerment of members of oppressed groups to direct social change. It examines the empowerment of children who are members of oppressed racial groups, lower class, and female, based on the ideas of multicultural education. A series of ethnographic studies illustrates how such young people view their world, their power to affect it in their own interests, and their response to what is usually a growing sense of powerlessness as they mature. The authors also conceptualize contributions of multicultural education to empowering young people, and report investigations of multicultural education projects educators have used for student empowerment. Issues in teacher education are also discussed.