ED382695 UD030379

 

Title:Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education.
Author(s): Banks, James A., Ed.; Banks, Cherry A. McGee, Ed.
Pages: 908
Publication Date:1995
Notes: The 47 chapters have been individually analyzed, see UD 030 380-426.
ISBN: 0-02-895797-0
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Macmillan Publishing USA, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 866 Third Avenue, New
York, NY 10022 ($75 plus postage).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIESEP1995

Multicultural education is a metadiscipline, a field of study designed to increase
educational equity for all students. It incorporates concepts, principles, theories, and
models from history, from the social and behavioral sciences, and from ethnic and women's
studies in particular. This handbook assembles in one volume the major research and
scholarship devoted to multicultural education that have developed since the field began to
emerge in the 1960s and 1970s. The 47 chapters reflect the diverse disciplinary roots of the
field and are grouped into the following parts: (1) History, Goals, Status, and Issues; (2)
Research and Research Issues; (3) Knowledge Construction; (4) Ethnic Groups in Historical and
Social Science Research; (5) Immigration Policy and the Education of Immigrants; (6) The
Education of Ethnic Groups; (7) Language Issues; (8) Academic Achievement: Approaches,
Theories, and Research; (9) Intergroup Education Approaches to School Reform; (10) Higher
Education; and (11) International Perspectives on Multicultural Education. Each chapter
contains references. (SLD)

Descriptors: Access to Education; Behavioral Sciences; Constructivism (Learning); *Cultural
Differences; Educational History; *Educational Research; Elementary Secondary Education;
*Equal Education; *Ethnic Studies; Higher Education; Immigrants; Intellectual Disciplines;
*Minority Groups; *Multicultural Education; Social Sciences