Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.s. Curriculum - Communities of Color and Official Knowledge in Education

Informationen zum Autor Wayne Au is an associate professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington Bothell and an editor for Rethinking Schools. Anthony L. Brown is an associate professor of curriculum and instruction in social studies education at the University of Texas at Austin. Dolores Calderón is an associate professor of youth, society, and justice at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University. Klappentext Chapters focus on the curriculum discourses of African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos during what has been construed as the founding period of curriculum studies, reclaiming their historical legacy and recovering the multicultural history of educational foundations in the United States. Zusammenfassung Building on earlier work that reviewed curriculum texts, this book serves as a much-needed correction to the glaring gaps in US curriculum history. Chapters focus on the curriculum discourses of African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos during what has been construed as the “founding” period of curriculum studies, reclaiming their historical legacy.

Product details

• Authors: Wayne Au, Wayne/ Brown Au, Anthony L Brown, Anthony L. Brown, Dolores Calderon, Dolores Calderón
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780807756782
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5678-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Multicultural Education; Multicultural Education; Multicultural Education Series; Muliticultural Education Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)