Improving Multicultural Education - Lessons From The Intergroup Education Movement

Informationen zum Autor Cherry A. McGee Banks is Professor of Education at the University of Washington- Bothell. Klappentext Intergroup conflict has been a perennial problem in the United States since colonial times. This book describes how a group of educators, social activists, and scholars tried to reduce intergroup tensions and create schools where people of all groups could learn together and from each other. Demonstrating the links between the current multicultural education movement and the roots of intergroup education, Cherry Banks helps us to understand where we've been, where we are, and where we might strive to be in our future attempts to understand and teach diversity. Zusammenfassung This book looks at how a group of educators! social activists! and scholars tried to reduce intergroup tensions and create schools where people of all groups could learn from and with each other.

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• Authors: Cherry A McGee Banks, Cherry A. McGee Banks, Cherry A. McGee/ Banks Banks, Cherry A.McGee Banks, Cherry A. McGee Banks
• Assisted by: James A Banks (Editor), James A. Banks (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2004
• EAN: 9780807745076
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4507-6
• No. of pages: 185
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Multicultural Education; Multicultural Education Series; Multicultural Education; Multicultural Education Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics