Research Catalog

Title

Multicultural course transformation in higher education : a broader truth / Ann Intili Morey, Margie K. Kitano, editors.

Publication

Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kitano, Margie.
• Morey, Ann I.

Description

xvi, 312 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• At the heart of the book is a two-dimensional model for infusing multicultural elements into a course or curriculum. The model identifies three levels of change (exclusive, inclusive, transformed) and four course components in which change can be applied (content, instructional strategies, assessment of student knowledge, and classroom dynamics). The authors suggest that instructors approach course change by focusing on one or more of these components and identifying a target level, depending on the instructor's multicultural goals and the nature of the discipline. The book draws upon the skills of experienced college and university educators to show how the model may be applied in specific disciplines and courses. This book is an indispensable, thoroughly documented resource. It will appeal to all post-secondary educators and administrators interested in creating an academic environment that reflects the needs of today's students and the reality of today's diverse society.
• Responding to increasing enrollments of students of color, students with disabilities, students whose first language is not English, and students entering college in their mid-twenties or later, many colleges and universities are including multicultural issues in their course and curriculum preparation. Faculty members and administrators involved in multicultural initiatives will find here a suggested framework for making course and curriculum changes, along with specific examples and scenarios from a variety of disciplines.

Subject

• Cultural Diversity
• Curriculum
• Curriculum change > United States
• Education
• Education, Higher > Curricula > United States
• Multicultural education > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-304) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A rationale and framework for course change ; What a course will look like after multicultural change / Margie K. Kitano -- Doing multiculturalism : conceptualizing curricular change / Deborah S. Rosenfelt -- Instructional strategies / Eleanor W. Lynch -- Assessment of student learning / Rena B. Lewis -- Classroom dynamics : disclosing the hidden curriculum / Terry Jones and Gale Auletta Young -- Creating an enabling learning environment for non-native speakers of English / Kate Kinsella -- Making mathematics instruction inclusive / Efraim P. Armendariz and Louise Hasty -- Multicultural science : focus on the biological and environmental sciences / Judith W. Rosenthal -- The humanities / Jackie R. Donath -- Integrating race and gender into introductory economics / Robin L. Bartlett and Susan F. Feiner -- Multicultural infusion in teacher education : foundations and applications / Geneva Gay -- Integrating transcultural knowledge into nursing curricula : an American Indian example / Karine Crow -- The community college curriculum / Desna L. Wallin -- Evaluating the results of multicultural education : taking the long way home / Jeffrey S. Beaudry and James Earl Davis -- Organizational change and implementation strategies for multicultural infusion / Ann Intili Morey.

ISBN

0205160689

LCCN

^^^95044078^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library