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Transforming curriculum for a culturally diverse society

Author: Etta R Hollins
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The intention of this book is to engage educators in transforming the public school curriculum for a culturally diverse society. This means more than including knowledge about diverse populations. It means reconceptualizing school practices through debate, deliberation, and collaboration involving the diverse voices that comprise the nation. The authors of the essays in this book address critical perspectives from  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Etta R Hollins
ISBN: 080588033X 9780805880335
OCLC Number: 33360995
Description: xiii, 298 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Etta R. Hollins --
Part I. The purpose of schooling --
Fundamental considerations : the deep meaning of Native American schooling, 1880-1900 / David Wallace Adams --
Multiculturalism and an overarching framework of values : some educational responses for ethnically plural societies / Jerzy Smolicz --
Multicultural education : for freedom's sake / James A. Banks --
Part II. Curriculum planning --
The practical 4 : something for curriculum professors to do / Joseph J. Schwab --
Dialogue : Schwab's"Practical 4" and its corroboration in recent history / Henrietta Schwartz --
Curriculum in and out of context / Catherine Cornbleth --
Part III. Curriculum perspectives --
Lessons (in identity) learned from the competing curriculum : some thoughts / Curtis Branch --
Social class and the hidden curriculum of work / Jean Anyon --
Toward a culturally based pedagogy : a case study of one Yup'ik Eskimo teacher / Jerry Lipska --
Welcome to my house : African American and European American students' responses to Virginia Hamilton's House of Dies Drear / Linda A. Spears-Bunton --
Part IV. Assessment and evaluation --
Performance-based assessment and educational equity / Linda Darling-Hammond --
Social evaluation of curriculum / Michael W. Apple and Landon E. Beyer.
Responsibility: edited by Etta R. Hollins.
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The intention of this book is to engage educators in transforming the public school curriculum for a culturally diverse society. This means more than including knowledge about diverse populations. It means reconceptualizing school practices through debate, deliberation, and collaboration involving the diverse voices that comprise the nation. The authors of the essays in this book address critical perspectives from which a framework is constructed for a discourse on planning curriculum for a culturally diverse society.

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