Meeting the Needs of Multiethnic and Multiracial Children in Schools

Description

From one of the premiere experts on the subject comes this “crash course” for teachers on understanding the developmental needs of multiethnic, multicultural, and multiracial children.

This book educates teachers through the experiences of children culturally, ethnically, and racially mixed heritage. In doing so, the authors challenge even longtime multicultural experts to broaden how we think and approach multicultural education. Wardle and Cruz-Janzen push the envelope of typical awareness. They are the harbingers of questions and information in a changing climate of race and culture ripe for redress and new ways of thinking, talking, and educating.

Contents


1. Multiethnic and Multiracial Children.
Multiethnic and Multiracial Children in Our Schools.Myths and Realities.Chapter Feature: Eva.Diversity in the Classroom.Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People.Needs of Multiethnic and Multiracial Children.Development of Racial and Ethnic Identity.Student Profile.Supporting Multiethnic and Multiracial Children.

2. Traditional Approaches.
Single Race-Ethnicity ApproachAvoid Diversity by Celebration.Student Profile.Multicultural EducationGroup Membership.Getting on the Same Page.Approaches to Multicultural Education.Banks' Dimensions of Multicultural Education.Banks' Approaches to Multicultural Education.Reforming Multicultural Education.

3. Historical Developments.
Student Profile.Development of a Racial System.Origins of U.S. Racism.Rejection of Racial Mixing.Latinos.Student Profile.Immigration.Racism and Segregation.Desegregation in Education.

4. Categorizing People.
Student Voices.Understanding Race, Racism and Categorizing People.Not Quite White: The Arab American Experience.The Ethnic Category.The Race Myth.After the Civil War.How Other Nations Categorize People.The Legacy of Slaves and Slave Owners.Maintaining the Color Line.Today's Multicultural and Multiethnic Children.

5. Identify Development of Multiethnic and Multiracial Children.
Identity Development.Identity Development Models.Chart Showing the Identity Models.Developmental and Ecological Model of Identity Development.Student Voices.Diagram of the Ecological Components of the Multiethnic/Multiracial Identity Model.

6. Families and Communities.
The Multiethnic and Multiracial Family.Myths and Realities.Table of Age-Related Issues for Interracial and Interethnic Families.Raising Healthy, Happy Interracial Children.Different Family Structures.

7. Curricular Approaches.
Early Childhood.Student Voices.Late Elementary.Student Voices.How to Evaluate a Textbook/Reading Book for P-12 Programs.Middle School.Student Voices.Multicultural School Activities.High School.Student Voices.Comments About Interracial Marriage and Multiracial Identity by Frederick Douglass and Bob Marley.Hidden Curriculum.Multicultural Model.Anti-Bias and Ecological Model of Multicultural Education.Case Study of the Anti-Bias and Ecological Model.

8. Instructional Strategies.
The Impact of Standards on Instruction.The Influence of the Teacher.Student Voices.Materials and Activities Checklist.Biased Instructional Materials.Culturally Authentic Bias.Suggestions for Instructional Techniques.Analysis of a Teaching Unit.Multicultural Music and Dance.

9. Teaching Teachers.
The Nature of Public Education.Preparing Future Teachers.Teacher Preparation Programs.Student Voices.Sociopolitical Construction of Multiethnic and Multiracial Persons.What Teachers Must Know and Be Able to Do.Twenty-Five Recommendations for Teacher Education and Educational Leadership Faculty, Pre-Service Teacher Candidates, and Participate in Teacher In-Service.

Features

• Authors remind the reader to critically think about diverse family constellations.

• Different models of multiracial identity development are reviewed.

• Materials that are hard to find are included in these chapters, furthering it as a special resource.

• Focus Questions at the beginning of each chapter help give students direction.

• Questions and Projects at the end of each chapter provide next steps that can be used in the field.

• Feature: “Student Voices” and “Student Profiles” woven throughout text give real world context.