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.

part I|24 pages

Multicultural Education

part II|82 pages

The Practice of Multicultural Education

chapter 2|20 pages

Different Ways of Seeing

Teaching in an Anti-Racist School

chapter 3|17 pages

Classroom Tapestry

A Practitioner's Perspective on Multicultural Education

chapter 4|25 pages

The Blind Men (Women) and the Elephant

A. Case for a Comprehensive Multicultural Education Program at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School*

part III|106 pages

Developing the Curriculum of Multicultural Education

chapter 8|22 pages

Beyond Island Boundaries

Ethnicity, Gender, and Cultural Revitalization in Nuyorican Literature

chapter 9|24 pages

In Search of Asia through Music

Guidelines and Ideas for Teaching Asian Music

chapter 10|17 pages

African American Children's Literature

The First One Hundred Years

chapter 11|12 pages

The Passions of Pluralism

Multiculturalism and the Expanding Community

chapter 12|16 pages

To Fight Swimming with the Current

Teaching Movement History1

part IV|83 pages

School Structures that Foster Multicultural Education

chapter 13|15 pages

One Step Among Many

Affirming Identity in Anti-Racist Schools

chapter 14|29 pages

Afrocentric Immersion

Academic and Personal Development of African American Males in Public Schools

chapter 15|10 pages

“I Am Still Thirsty”*

A Theorization on the Authority and Cultural Location of Afrocentrism

chapter 16|13 pages

“Choice” for the Chosen

The False Promise of Market-Driven Education