Choosing Democracy: A Practical Guide to Multicultural Education

by Duane E. Campbell

This text is appropriate for any course in Multicultural Education or Multicultural Curriculum. This book takes a strong social reconstructionist approach in advocating democratic school reform. It focuses on empowerment and provides detailed descriptions of teaching strategies to achieve it. Based on the experiences of hundreds of future teachers in multicultural education courses, this text offers concrete teaching alternatives that can be used in the classroom to respond to the issues of racism, sexism, gender, and class bias.

381 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 1995

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[M · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is one of the best textbooks I ever had to work with, I agreed with so many of the points the author made about multicultural education in schools and the politics behind a quality education for low income students