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Summary:

Connecting multicultural education with political issues of power and struggle, this book explores what multicultural education means to white people, given the unequal racial power relations in the U.S. and worldwide. It examines connections between race, gender, and social class, particularly as these connections play out for white women. While taking a feminist perspective, the author is also wary of the power white middle class women exercise in defining what counts as gender issues. Throughout the book, Sleeter argues that multicultural education was born in political struggle and can never meaningfully be disconnected from politics. Ultimately the quest for schooling for social justice is a political quest rather than a technical issue.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Multicultural Education as a Form of Resistance to Oppression
• 2. Gender as a Mediator of Racial Consciousness
• 3. Political Perspectives about Difference and Inequality
• 4. Resisting Racial Awareness: How Teachers Understand the Social Order from their Social Locations
• 5. This Curriculum is Multicultural ... Isn't It?
• 6. Reflections on my Use of Multicultural and Critical Pedagogy when Students are White
• 7. Multicultural Education, Social Positionality, and Whiteness
• 8. Race, Class, Gender and Abandoned Dreams / Christine E. Sleeter and Carl A. Grant
• 9. Teaching Science for Social Justice
• 10. Power and Privilege in White Middle Class Feminist Discussions of Gender and Education
• 11. Multicultural Education as Social Movement
• 12. Educating the New Majority: A Play.

Author/Creator:

Sleeter, Christine E., 1948-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Multicultural education as social activism [by Sleeter, C.E.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Multicultural education as social activism [by Sleeter, C.E.] (Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996 — ISBN 0791429970; LCCN 95038596; OCLC Number 33078668)

Related Series:

SUNY series, social context of education

Subjects:

Multicultural education — Social aspects — United States

Educational sociology — United States

Multicultural education — Social aspects

Multicultural education

Educational sociology

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-274) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 284 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LC1099.3 .S587 1996eb

ISBNs:

0585043345 (electronic bk.)
9780585043340 (electronic bk.)
0791429970 [Invalid]
0791429989 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

42854776

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: ocm42854776