Multiculturalism and the Teacher Education Experience: Essays on Race, Class, and Culture
Description
This book explores potential strategies for conducting multicultural education classes for preservice students. It is proposed that effective strategies must confront issues of Whiteness and White privilege as opposed to those that tend to trivialize multicultural experiences in terms of food, fun and fiestas also known as "Three F's Multiculturalism". As an alternative, via a collection of articles and essays, the author proposes a set of criteria that defines the preconditions for an optimal learning environment. Criterion focuses on the knowledge, skills and dispositions o...
ISBN(s)
0595464378, 9780595464371
