ABSTRACT
Freedom's Plow is the first volume designed to provide teachers and teachers-in-training with the practical resources they need to make their teaching practice and classrooms more multicultural. Parts II and III present the voices and experiences of teachers from first grade to college level who are actually engaged in multicultural teaching efforts. The contributors examine what redefining their practice as multicultural has meant for their work in terms of content, pedagogy, power and indeed their own attitudes and values. The volume concludes by focusing on the power arrangements, perspectives and personnel policies needed if schools are to emerge as truly multicultural, multiethnic democracies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|24 pages
Multicultural Education
chapter 1|22 pages
Reconstructing Schools as Multiracial/Multicultural Democracies
part II|82 pages
The Practice of Multicultural Education
chapter 4|25 pages
The Blind Men (Women) and the Elephant
part III|106 pages
Developing the Curriculum of Multicultural Education
chapter 7|12 pages
Promises, Pitfalls, and Principles of Text Selection in Curricular Diversification
chapter 8|22 pages
Beyond Island Boundaries
part IV|83 pages
School Structures that Foster Multicultural Education