New Book Review: Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, 8th Edition

Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, 8th Edition

James A.Banks, Cherry A.McGee Banks 

Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives is designed to help current and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become more effective practitioners in culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse classrooms and schools.
The Eighth Edition has been revised to reflect new research and data regarding the decreasing non-Hispanic White population in the U.S. Two new sections to the Multicultural Resources include "Special Education and Equity," and "Gifted Education and Equity." The Multicultural Resources in the Appendix have also been revised and updated and the Glossary has been revised to incorporate 2010 census data and new developments in the field.

Table of Contents

Part I Issues and Concepts

Chapter 1: Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals

James A. Banks

Chapter 2: Culture, Teaching, and Learning

Christina Convertino, Bradley A. Levinson, and Norma González

Chapter 3: Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in the Classroom

Carl A. Grant and Christine E. Sleeter

Part II Social Class and Religion

Chapter 4: Social Class and Education

Lois Weis

Chapter 5: Christian Nation or Pluralistic Culture: Religion in American Life

Charles H. Lippy

Part III Gender

Chapter 6: Gender Bias: From Colonial America to Today's Classrooms

David Sadker and Karen Zittleman

Chapter 7: Classrooms for Diversity: Rethinking Curriculum and Pedagogy

Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault

Chapter 8: Understanding and Supporting Gender Equity in Schools

Diane Pollard

Chapter 9: Queer Lessons: Multiculturalism and Sexual and Gender Minorities in Multicultural Education

Cris Mayo

Part IV Race, Ethnicity, and Language

Chapter 10: Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

James A. Banks

Chapter 11: Backstage Racism: Implications for Teaching

Leslie H. Picca and Ruth Thompson-Miller

Chapter 12: Language Diversity and Schooling

Tom T. Stritikus and Manka M. Varghese

Part V Exceptionality

Chapter 13: Educational Equality for Students with Disabilities

Sara C. Bicard and William L. Heward

Chapter 14: School Inclusion and Multicultural Issues in Special Education

Luanna H. Meyer, Jill M. Bevan-Brown, Hyun-Sook Park and Catherine Savage

Chapter 15: Recruiting and Retaining Gifted Students from Different Ethnic, Cultural, and Language Groups

Donna Y. Ford

Part VI School Reform

Chapter 16: School Reform and Student Learning: A Multicultural Perspective

Sonia Nieto and Patty Bode

Chapter 17: Families and Teachers Working Together for School Improvement

Cherry A. McGee Banks

 Author Information

James A. Banks is Russell F. Stark University Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is past President of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a member of the National Academy of Education.

Cherry A. McGee Banks is associate professor of Education at the University of Washington, Bothell. She is the coeditor of Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives and contributing author to Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge, and Action. She has published widely on topics related to multicultural education in journals such as Social Education, Phi Delta Kappan, and Educational Policy. In 1997 she received the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Washington, Bothell. She was the recipient of the Worthington Distinguished