Critical Multicultural Education - Christine E. Sleeter

Critical Multicultural Education

Theory and Practice
Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2024
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-8628-4 (ISBN)
36,15 inkl. MwSt
A volume which collects Christine Sleeter’s core work on critical multicultural education, situating culture and identity within an analysis of power and racism. Includes ten articles that explicitly locate multicultural education within critical understandings of race, racism, and colonialism, offering theoretical and practical discussions.
This volume collects Christine Sleeter’s core work focusing on critical multicultural education, situating culture and identity within an analysis of power and racism. Multicultural education arose in the context of the Civil Rights Movement and, in its inception, shared with that movement a focus on eradicating both interpersonal and systemic racism. The problem this book takes up is that, over time, many people have come to understand and enact multicultural education in ways that evade grappling directly with racism. This dilution has happened for several reasons, including White teachers’ rearticulations of multicultural education as “getting along” or learning to be colorblind and neoliberal reforms that have reduced it to a celebration of cultural diversity while maintaining silence about racism. This volume includes ten of Sleeter’s articles that explicitly locate multicultural education within critical understandings of race, racism, and colonialism, offering both theoretical and practical discussions of what that means.


Book Features:




Brings together, in one volume, the full arc of work by a leading scholar in multicultural education.
Offers a unique focus on why multicultural education needs to be critical and what it means to be critical.
Directly connects theory with practice by offering vignettes of practice following theoretical or conceptual discussions.
Examines how the power of Whiteness and racial capitalism has forestalled progressive education and social change.
Spans multicultural education from its inception in the 1970s through the current attacks on Critical Race Theory, showing how it has been targeted, ignored, or misused.

Christine E. Sleeter is professor emerita in the College of Education at California State University, Monterey Bay. Her books include Critical Race Theory and Its Critics, Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools, and Un-Standardizing Curriculum.

Contents


Series Foreword James A. Banks  ix


Introduction  1

Pivot Points in My Biographical Journey  1

Why Critical?  5


Part I: Defining Critical Multicultural Education


1.  Critical Multiculturalism: An Introduction  13

With Stephen May

The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism  15

Critical Responses to Multiculturalism  19

Critical Multiculturalism  22


2.  Critical Pedagogy, Critical Race Theory, and Antiracist Education: Implications for Multicultural Education  25

With Dolores Delgado Bernal

Critical Pedagogy and Multicultural Education  27

Critical Race Theory and Multicultural Education  33

AntiRacist Education  41

Discussion  46


3.  Capitalism and Caste  50

Roots of Caste and Capitalism  50

Racial Capitalism  52

Marxism as a Western European Totalizing Theory  53

School Reform, Curriculum, and Public Consciousness  55

Conclusion  57


Part II: Critical Multicultural Education and School Reform


4.  Challenging Racism and Colonialism Through Ethnic Studies  61

Minoritized Youth and Historical Amnesia  62

What Happened to Multicultural Education?  63

Curriculum: Still Through White Points of View  65

Ethnic Studies as a Decolonial Project  67

Ethnic Studies Praxis  70

Implications  73


5.  Critical Race Theory as the New Villain  75

With Francesca A. López

The Bastardization of Critical Race Theory  75

Efforts to Make Curriculum More Inclusive  77

Reactions to Equitable Education Endeavors  79

What the Critics Are Saying  81

How We Respond to the Critics  83

CRT as the Villain  85

Conclusion  89


6.  Diversity, Social Justice, and Resistance to Disempowerment  90

Diversity, Social Justice, and School Reform Under Neoliberalism  91

Curriculum That Disempowers  93

Curriculum That Empowers  95

Confronting the Education Reform Paradigm  97


7.  Equity and Race-Visible Urban School Reform  98

The Problem With Color-Blind Solutions to Urban School Challenges  99

Race-Visible Pedagogy in the Classroom  101

Race-Visible Teachers  105

Race and Class Visible Equity in Access  107

Conclusion  109


8.  Teaching for Social Justice in Multicultural Classrooms  111

Four Hallmarks of Teaching for Social Justice in Multicultural Classrooms  111

Framework for Designing Classroom Teaching  114

Conclusion  120


Part III: Personalizing Critical Multicultural Education


9.  Situating Oneself in a Critical Multicultural History  123

Family History as an Entrée into History  124

Benefiting From Colonization  125

Implications  127


10.  Multicultural Curriculum and Critical Family History  129

Approaches to Family History Research  129

Theoretical Lenses for Critical Family History  130

Tools for Researching Critical Family History  133

Teaching Multicultural Curriculum With Critical Family History  136

Conclusion  139


References  141


Index  167


About the Author  178

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Multicultural Education Series
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): James A. Banks
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8077-8628-4 / 0807786284
ISBN-13 978-0-8077-8628-4 / 9780807786284
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