Multicultural Education: Issues, Policies, and Practices

Multicultural Education: Issues, Policies, and Practices The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on dif-ferent aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world.\n\nThe chapters that you are about to read document sev-eral important themes in multicultural education. The first chapter by the Edited bys presents an introduction and overview of the field of multicultural education by presenting its goals, historical background, assumptions and conceptual framework so as to set the stage for the chapters to follow. Attempting to cover the many views on different aspects of multicultural education goes beyond the scope of this introductory chapter. However, we have presented the historical origin and some of the recent issues and sug-gestions by prominent scholars including James Bank, Christine Sleeter, Sonia Nieto, Robert Cooper, and Robert Slavin with regards to policies, curriculum contents and teaching approaches in multicultural education.Multicultural Education: Issues, Policies, and Practices is written by Salili, Farideh; Hoosain, Rumjahn and published by Information Age Publishing. ISBNs for Multicultural Education: Issues, Policies, and Practices are 9781607527855, 1607527855 and the print ISBNs are 9781930608740, 1930608748.