Bridging Multiple Worlds: Case Studies of Diverse Educational Communities

by Lorraine S. Taylor, Catharine R. Whittaker

This text offers “real world” case studies involving educational staff, students, and families from diverse backgrounds in a variety of dynamic school settings. Bridging Multiple Worlds emphasizes long-term, comprehensive solutions that promote school, home, and community partnership to meet challenges in educational settings. The text provides foundational information about diversity in the US, multicultural education, and family-school-community partnership in Part I; moves on to explore the use of cases in teacher education and how to analyze cases using a “decision making scaffold” in Part II; and delves deeply into specific cases and the issues surrounding them on a wide range of diversity topics in the seven chapters in Part III.

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 22, 2003

Reviews

[Abigail]

EDUC 411

[Philip]

I read this for class.

It is a very practical, thorough, and useful look at the complex issues of diversity faced in the classroom.

It address a multitude of diversities, including economic, intellectual, racial, gender, sexual orientation/preference, linguistic, home life, etc...

It is well researched, well documented, clear, concise, and above all - helpful.

Quite a bit changed in my classroom because of this book.

We had to read couple other books for class as well, but this one takes the cake.

[Mrs. Schonour]

This book has some interesting information about diversity, but I've found many journal articles with much better and more up to date statistics. I would not recommend this book.