"The Multicultural Education Series of books at Teachers College Press was initiated in 1996 and is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2021. The Series consists of more than 70 published books and others that are in various stages of development. This 25th commemorative volume consists of engaging, incisive, and timely selections from the best-selling and most influential books in the Series. The selections describe ways in which multicultural education should be reimagined in a nation and world that are becoming increasingly complex because of continuing immigration, race is becoming more fluid and complex due to interracial mixing and border crossing, and because social-class stratification is intensifying and becoming more salient because of the pandemic"--

Join us in celebrating the 25th anniversary of James A. Banks’ Multicultural Education Series, published by Teachers College Press—a dynamic series consisting of more than 70 published books with many more in the pipeline. This commemorative volume features engaging, incisive, and timely selections from the bestselling and most influential books in the series. Together, these selections address how multicultural education should be transformed for a nation and world that are becoming increasingly complex due to virulent racism, pernicious nationalism, mass migrations, interracial mixing, social-class stratification, and a global pandemic. Book Features: Informative and engaging selections from the most important and influential publications in the Multicultural Education Series. An introduction by James A. Banks that integrates and interrelates the chapters and describes how they can be used to transform multicultural education for a changing world. An afterword by Margaret Smith Crocco that synthesizes the book and describes ways to implement school reform that expands educational opportunity. Contributors: James A. Banks, Cherry A. McGee Banks, Margaret Smith Crocco, Linda Darling-Hammond, Robin DiAngelo, Paul C. Gorski, Tyrone C. Howard, Gary R. Howard, Carol D. Lee, James W. Loewen, Sonia Nieto, Pedro A. Noguera, Özlem Sensoy, Christine E. Sleeter, Esa Syeed, Guadalupe Valdés, Miguel Zavala

Any type of education or teaching that combines the values, histories, beliefs, texts and viewpoints of persons belonging to different cultural backgrounds is referred to as multicultural education. It is a method of teaching that is based on certain principles, which include diversity, inquiry, inclusion, self-reflection, democracy, skill acquisition and critical thinking. Education policy consists of the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of educational systems. The aim of multicultural education is to ensure that all students irrespective of their gender, social class, ethnicity, race or culture should be given equal opportunity to learn in schools. Transformation of multicultural education aims to introduce the necessary changes to ensure that it caters to the present and future goals of multicultural education. The complexity of the educational transformation process to acquire intercultural attributes is determined by the promotion of educational policies for cultural diversity. This book studies and analyses the transformation of multicultural education policy and practice. Coherent flow of topics, student-friendly language, and extensive use of examples make it an invaluable source of knowledge.

The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on dif-ferent aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world. The chapters that you are about to read document sev-eral important themes in multicultural education. The first chapter by the editors presents an introduction and overview of the field of multicultural education by presenting its goals, historical background, assumptions and conceptual framework so as to set the stage for the chapters to follow. Attempting to cover the many views on different aspects of multicultural education goes beyond the scope of this introductory chapter. However, we have presented the historical origin and some of the recent issues and sug-gestions by prominent scholars including James Bank, Christine Sleeter, Sonia Nieto, Robert Cooper, and Robert Slavin with regards to policies, curriculum contents and teaching approaches in multicultural education.

This fascinating case study, first published in 1990, of how policies work out in a real school setting is placed in the context of the wider debate about multi-cultural, anti-racist education. This book also makes suggestions for the shaping of future policy. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of education and sociology.

This conceptually rich and empirically grounded book draws upon expertise from a panel of emerging and established international scholars to explore the institutionalization and effect of multicultural education on a global scale. Previous studies of multicultural education have largely ignored the significance of understanding the combination of multiple sociopolitical influences on multicultural education in both policy and practice. Filling this void, this book sheds light on the two main reasons for taking a “glocal” perspective on multicultural education. First, children should be provided with meaningful learning opportunities to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to live in a culturally and ethno-linguistically diverse society, where the distinction between the local and the global is becoming blurred. Second, understanding both the “global grammar” and the “local semantics” of multicultural education helps researchers and policy-makers grasp the whole picture of multicultural education as an evolving social construct and phenomenon. This new book provokes a new round of discussion and research to expand and enrich our inquiry into cultural diversity and educational inclusion.

Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States uses a dialogical approach to examine responses to increasing cultural and racial diversity in both countries. It compares and contrasts foundational myths and highlights the sociopolitical contexts that affect the conditions of citizenship, access to education, and inclusion of diverse cultural knowledge and languages in educational systems.

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