Raising Multicultural Awareness in Higher Education [Paperback]

Kleins thin and powerful volume is a wake-up call to all teachers, teacher-candidates, and pre-service teachers that multicultural awareness should be a core in teacher preparation and continuing education. Kleins practical guide assists us all in becoming aware and informed reflective practitioners&Klein ends by discussing popular culture and how it shapes our thinking about multicultural education. She argues persuasively for all involved in the preparation of citizens of the world to be celebratory and transforming in our multicultural educative efforts to teach with the values of empathy, equity, and excellence in mind.This book is written for teacher-candidates who are becoming culturally responsible and informed reflective practitioners. As readers explore the contents of the textbook and carry out the suggested teaching and learning exercises, they will find themselves equipped with a toolkit for addressing multicultural education concerns.Raising Multicultural Awareness in Higher Education is written for teacher-candidates who are becoming culturally responsible and informed reflective practitioners. It is divided into eleven chapters and follows an organic exploration of theory and practice. The individual chapters of the textbook are broken down into two parts, (1) theory and (2) practical applications. These two distinct parts evolve as explorations of (1) self and other and (2) teaching and learning. As readers explore the contents of the textbook and carry out the suggested teaching and learning exercises, they will find themselves equipped with a toolkit for addressing multicultural education concerns.ForewordPrefaceChapter One: An Exploration of SelfChapter Two: Identity FormationChapter Three: Our Cultural Capital to Broker Our TeachingChapter Four: Teacher as Change-Agent, Negotiator, & Peace-builderChapter 5: Ideal Classrooms & Self-Regulated LearningChapter 6: Connected & Integrated LearningChapter 7: Student-Engagement & IndividlCž