ABSTRACT
Multicultural Curriculum is a collection of original essays brought together to develop new theories and meaningful praxis to build a new paradigm for teaching multiculturalism in today's classroom. The impressive list of contributors shows how the current epistemological and pedagogical practices that are designed to forward multiculturalism actually serves to essentialize cultures--the antithesis of what multicultural education is designed to accomplish. The editors offer alternative theories, classroom teaching methods, and policies that are designed to promote true cultural understanding and equality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |11 pages
Introduction
Rethinking Multiculturalism and Curricular Knowledge for the Twenty-first Century
part I|111 pages
Theory
chapter 2|19 pages
What Puts the “Culture” in “Multiculturalism”?
An Analysis of Culture, Government, and the Politics of Mexican Identity
chapter 3|14 pages
World Institutions, World Dispositions
Curriculum in the World-Cultural Institution of Schooling
part II|95 pages
Practice
chapter 9|21 pages
Multicultural Discourse in Teaching Education
The Case of One Integrated Teaching Methods Block
chapter 10|10 pages
Beyond Eurocentrism
Implications of Social Epistemology for Mathematics Education
part III|81 pages
Policy
chapter 15|16 pages
Reaping the Harvest of Shame
Racism and Teaching in a Time of Radical Economic Insecurity(Lessons from a High School Mass Media Course)
