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  This research-based, comprehensive introduction to multicultural education and diversity prepares future teachers for the wide diversity of students they will meet in their classrooms, schools, and communities. Moving beyond the purely cultural approach of many comparable texts, Human Diversity in Education addresses the full range of human diversity found in today's schools--including nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, class, language, sexual orientation, and ability levels.Based on the assumption that change begins with the individual teacher, the text argues that prospective teachers must learn to incorporate issues of diversity in all of their work--including in their interactions with children, parents, colleagues, and the community.
  
  Preface
  
  xxiii
  
  part one Foundations for Multicultural Teaching
  
  1
  
  (148)
  
  1 EDUCATION IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
  
  3
  
  (26)
  
  Case Study: Drew Daniels' Diversity Class
  
  4
  
  (1)
  
  The Reality of Social Change
  
  5
  
  (5)
  
  Demographics in Transition
  
  5
  
  (1)
  
  Institutions in Transition
  
  6
  
  (4)
  
  Economics and Politics
  
  Marriage and Family Life
  
  Organized Religion
  
  7
  
  (3)
  
  Schools as a Reflection of Social Change
  
  10
  
  (3)
  
  Demographics
  
  10
  
  (1)
  
  Language
  
  10
  
  (1)
  
  Ability
  
  11
  
  (1)
  
  Gender
  
  11
  
  (1)
  
  Students and Teachers: A Clash of Cultures?
  
  12
  
  (1)
  
  Rethinking Schools and Learning: The Effort to Reform Our Schools
  
  12
  
  (1)
  
  Schools in Transition
  
  13
  
  (7)
  
  Characteristics of Classrooms for the Industrial (Factory) Age, or Second Wave
  
  14
  
  (1)
  
  Standardization
  
  Synchronization
  
  Specialization
  
  Centralization
  
  Large Scale
  
  14
  
  (1)
  
  Characteristics of Classrooms for the Information Age, or Third Wave
  
  15
  
  (3)
  
  Individualization and Choice
  
  Collaboration
  
  Diversity
  
  Decentralization
  
  Small Scale
  
  16
  
  (2)
  
  Where We Are Today
  
  18
  
  (1)
  
  The Difficulty of Change
  
  18
  
  (2)
  
  Ideological Perspectives on Multicultural Education
  
  20
  
  (2)
  
  Goals of This Book
  
  22
  
  (3)
  
  Goal 1: To Recognize Social and Cultural Change
  
  24
  
  (1)
  
  Goal 2: To Understand Culture, Learning, and the Culture-Learning Process
  
  24
  
  (1)
  
  Goal 3: To Improve Intergroup and Intragroup Interactions
  
  24
  
  (1)
  
  Goal 4: To Transmit Intercultural Understanding and Skills to Students