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This book provides pragmatic ideas and analyses from contributors with multicultural backgrounds and educational experiences, on how to implement multicultural education in college and university courses of study; and presents strategies for transforming both the curricula and the training of effective multicultural educators. Section 1 offer insights from their classroom experience and research in instructional strategies. The essays in Section 2 affirm how far-reaching and multifaceted multicultural education is, from how many perspectives it can be studied, and on how many levels it impacts curriculum. Section 3 contains papers that examine the creation of the climate for change. Chapters and their authors are the following: "Using Humor to Promote Multicultural Understanding" (Samuel Betances); "The Point of the Story" (Joan Livingston-Webber); "Teaching Education Majors How to Foster Resiliency in Their Students" (Kimberly A. Gordon); "Conflict and Resistance in the Multicultural Classroom" (Linda Dittmar); "Classroom Closets: The Invisible History of Gays and Lesbians" (R. Jovita Baber); "Multiculturalism in U.S. Society and Education: Why an Irritant and a Paradox?" (Carlos J. Ovando and Luise Prior McCarty); "Teaching About Race in the Race-Conscious United States (J. Q. Adams); "Understanding Asian Americans: A New Perspective" (Shin Kim); "Tech Prep: Preparation for Work Force Diversity" (Kerry A. Kerber and A. Anthony Falgiani); "Assessing the Effectiveness of Multicultural Curriculum Initiatives in Higher Education: Proving the Self-Evident" (Patricia L. Francis); "A Study of the Campus Climate: Methodology and Results" (Catherine A. Riordan); "Multicultural Perspectives in Counseling" (Edward Johnson and Linda S. Aguilar); "Postsecondary Education and Persons with Disabilities" (Judith J. Smithson); and "Moving Toward Justice, Equity, and Diversity at Western Illinois University" (Janice R. Welsch). Each chapter concludes with its own reference list. The volume also contains two appendixes: (1) "Multicultural Education: Voices of the Nineties--A Selective, Annotated Bibliography of Journal Articles, Special Journal Issues, and Books (Katherine Dahl); (2) "Film and Videos for the Multicultural Classroom" (Janice R. Welsch). (GLR)

This book of 15 author-contributed chapters provides pragmatic illustrations of how to implement multicultural education in college and university courses of study, and presents strategies for both transforming curricula and the training of effective multicultural educators. Section I focuses on instructional strategies for schools that possess diverse student populations. Section II examines teacher preparation programs in effective interaction strategies for culturally diverse classrooms. The third section highlights key issues when establishing a climate for change. Chapters are as follows: "A Review of the Multicultural Education Literature" (Patricia L. Francis); "Using Effective Teaching Strategies in the Multicultural Classroom" (Donald Reyes); "Teaching and Learning with Culturally Diverse Students: A Teacher Preparation Course at a Comprehensive Public University" (Mario Yepes-Baraya); "Teaching about Cultural Diversity: Challenge and Response at a Community College" (Bansrajh Mattai); "Including the Unincluded in Mathematics" (Judith K. Olson and Melfried Olson); "Cooperative Learning in the Culturally Diverse Classroom" (Andrea T. Williams); "Combatting Racism in the Classroom" (James I. Macdonald and Stanley M. Newman); "Maximizing the Use of Comprehensive Assessments in Assessing Racial and Culturally Diverse Undergraduates: Alternative Strategies and Approaches" (Stafford Hood); "Preparing Teachers to be Effective Multicultural Educators" (Barbara S. Penelton); "Native Americans: From Christopher Columbus to Curriculum Integration" (James Fenelon);"Understanding Social Interaction in the Culturally Diverse Classroom" (J. Q. Adams); "Moving Beyond the Plantation: Collaboratively Transforming and Integrating the Curriculum" (Christina Brinkley et al.); "Notes on 'Faculty Development Programs in Support of Multicultural Education'" (Emily C. Wadsworth); "Leadership of the Governing Board and Central Administration: Providing the Policy and Budgetary Framework for Incorporating Multicultural Elements into College and University Curricula" (Carol Everly Floyd and Alfonzo Thurmon); and "Selected Multicultural Education Resources." Appendices include the executive summary of a state (Illinois) report on multicultural education and summaries of multicultural initiatives at Illinois institutions. (DB)