ED412315 UD031940
Title: Dictionary of Multicultural Education.
Author(s): Grant, Carl A., Ed.; Ladson-Billings, Gloria, Ed.
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-89774-798-4
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Reference materials--Vocabularies/Classifications
(134)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Arizona
Journal Announcement: RIEFEB1998
The focus
of this dictionary is the meanings and perspectives of various terms
that are used in multicultural education. Contributors have often
addressed the literal meanings of words and terms as well as contextual
meanings and examples that helped create those meanings. Like other
dictionaries, this one is arranged alphabetically, but it goes beyond
ordinary dictionaries in the depth of its concern with multicultural
education and diversity. Some entries define commonly used terms.
Others are court cases and legal precedents, while still others
are methodological and theoretical-conceptual entries. Biographical
sketches are not included, since a dictionary of this scope and
size could not do justice to the many people who have contributed
to multicultural education. Nor are terms that describe groups of
people included, although the intellectual traditions that have
emerged from the struggles of these people have been defined. Standardization
of the vocabulary of multicultural education is necessary for communication
within the academy and across the many political and social boundaries
that must be spanned to make multicultural education a reality.
(Contains 13 references.) (SLD)
Descriptors: Civil Rights; *Communication (Thought Transfer); Court
Litigation; *Cultural Awareness; Cultural Differences; *Definitions;
Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Minority Groups;
*Multicultural Education; *Racial Differences; *Theories; Urban
Problems
