Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to RACE, CLASS, and GENDER

by Christine Sleeter, Carl A. Grant

This book offers the educational community a way of thinking about race, language, culture, class, gender, and disability in teaching. The new Fifth Edition incorporates recent literature relevant to ongoing struggles and offers continued reflection on and insight into this evolving field of study and practice. More specifically, this edition includes recent demographics, discussion of equity issues in the context of the accountability movement and particularly No Child Left Behind, a recasting of the deficit ideology, some inclusion of religion, and research that connects culturally situated teaching and learning with student achievement.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Christine E. Sleeter is a researcher, teacher, and writer who is best known for her work in critical multicultural education, and her insights into white people grappling with race. Author of about 20 academic books, she is also author of two novels. She holds the title of Professor Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. She is a sought-after speaker both in the U.S. and internationally. She has been honored with awards that include the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award, the Chapman University Paulo Freire Education Project Social Justice Award, the National Association for Multicultural Education Research Award, and membership in the National Academy of Education

Reviews

[Lauren Stephens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good overview of each of the five approaches. It is a bit dated at this point, but much of it is still relevant. I wish there was a bit more support in developing curriculum and application to classrooms today.

[Teniell · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was assigned for my multicultural class in my grad program. A good overview of distinct approaches to multicultural education.

[Joelyn]

Used this book in my prelims and in my dissertation