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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. 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. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Preface
Background
An Overview of the Book
Authors and Affiliations
ch. 1 A Rationale and Framework for Course Change
ch. 2 What a Course Will Look Like After Multicultural Change
ch. 3 Doing Multiculturalism: Conceptualizing Curricular Change
ch. 4 Instructional Strategies
ch. 5 Assessment of Student Learning
ch. 6 Classroom Dynamics: Disclosing the Hidden Curriculum
ch. 7 Creating an Enabling Learning Environment for Non-Native Speakers of English
ch. 8 Making Mathematics Instruction Inclusive
ch. 9 Multicultural Science: Focus on the Biological and Environmental Sciences
ch. 10 The Humanities
ch. 11 Integrating Race and Gender into Introductory Economics
ch. 12 Multicultural Infusion in Teacher Education: Foundations and Applications
ch. 13 Integrating Transcultural Knowledge into Nursing Curricula: An American Indian Example
ch. 14 The Community College Curriculum
ch. 15 Evaluating the Results of Multicultural Education: Taking the Long Way Home
ch. 16 Organizational Change and Implementation Strategies for
Multicultural Infusion
References
Index
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. 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. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Preface
Background
An Overview of the Book
Authors and Affiliations
ch. 1 A Rationale and Framework for Course Change
ch. 2 What a Course Will Look Like After Multicultural Change
ch. 3 Doing Multiculturalism: Conceptualizing Curricular Change
ch. 4 Instructional Strategies
ch. 5 Assessment of Student Learning
ch. 6 Classroom Dynamics: Disclosing the Hidden Curriculum
ch. 7 Creating an Enabling Learning Environment for Non-Native Speakers of English
ch. 8 Making Mathematics Instruction Inclusive
ch. 9 Multicultural Science: Focus on the Biological and Environmental Sciences
ch. 10 The Humanities
ch. 11 Integrating Race and Gender into Introductory Economics
ch. 12 Multicultural Infusion in Teacher Education: Foundations and Applications
ch. 13 Integrating Transcultural Knowledge into Nursing Curricula: An American Indian Example
ch. 14 The Community College Curriculum
ch. 15 Evaluating the Results of Multicultural Education: Taking the Long Way Home
ch. 16 Organizational Change and Implementation Strategies for
Multicultural Infusion
References
Index