This book focuses on multicultural curriculum transformation in social students and civic education subject areas. The discussion of each area outlines critical considerations for multicultural curriculum transformation for the area by grade level and then by eight organizing tools, including content standards, relationships with and among students and their families, and evaluation of student learning and teaching effectiveness. The volume is designed to speak with PK-12 teachers as colleagues in the multicultural curriculum transformation work. Readers are exposed to “things to think about,” but also given curricular examples to work with or from in going about the actual, concrete work of curriculum change. This work supports PK-12 teachers to independently multiculturally adapt existing curriculum, to create new multicultural curriculum differentiated by content areas and grade levels, and by providing ample examples of what such multicultural transformed social studies and civic education curricula looks like in practice.
This book focuses on multicultural curriculum transformation in literacy and language arts subject areas.
This volume seeks to engage PK–12 STEM teachers in the work of multicultural curriculum transformation by meeting them in the contexts in which they teach and equip them to continue the work of multicultural curriculum transformation on ...
Critical Race Theory Perspectives on the Social Studies: The Profession, Policies, and Curriculum
WINNER 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award The essays collected in this book, by James A. Banks, a foundational figure in the field of multicultural education, illuminate the interconnection between the author’s ...
This book focuses on multicultural curriculum transformation in literacy and language arts subject areas.
History is alive: Teaching children about changes over time. Social Studies, 94, 97–110. Alleman, J., & Brophy, J. (2003b). Social studies excursions, K-3. Book Three: Powerful units on childhood, money, and government.
Thanks, Professor Banks: 'The father of multicultural education' is retiring after 50 years at UW. University of Washington Magazine. ... Culture-centered knowledge: Black studies, curriculum transformation, and social action.
The authors of the nine other chapters in this book have struggled with the issues discussed above in several different ways. The chapter authors represent a wide range of views and expertise within the field of social stud-ies.
Culture-centered knowledge: Black studies, curriculum transformation, and social action. In J. A.Banks & C. A.McGee Banks (Eds.), Handbook of research on multicultural education (2nd ed., pp. 349–378). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Gormley, W. T., Jr., Gayer, T., Phillips, D., & Dawson, B. (2005). The effects of universal pre-K on cognitive development. Developmental Psychology, 41(6), 872–884. Heckman, J., & Masterov, D. (2004). The productivity argument for ...