Diversity And Motivation: Culturally Responsive Teaching

"At long last here is a book that provides both the conceptual framework for culturally responsive teaching and useful instructional strategies that promote a community-centered approach to teaching and learning. Faculty in multicultural settings will find this book invaluable."
-- Laura I. Rendon, professor of educational leadership and policy, Arizona State University

""Diversity and Motivation" is a wonderful integration of helpful conceptual frameworks and practical strategies that even the most experienced teacher will value. It is a resource that I will use again and again."
-- Beverly Daniel Tatum, president, Spelman College

"Every day college and university faculty ask themselves the question, 'How can we become more effective teachers of a culturally diverse student body?' This book provides the most comprehensive and useful answer that I have ever read. Drawing upon years of experience and research with students from various cultural backgrounds, Wlodkowski and Ginsberg offer faculty a remarkable integration of theory and practice-- full of the kind of insights and strategies they can use today."
-- Michael Nettles, professor of education, University of Michigan and executive director, Fredrick D. Patterson Research Institute, United Negro College Fund

"Every day college and university faculty ask themselves the question, 'How can we become more effective teachers of a culturally diverse student body?' This book provides the most comprehensive and useful answer that I have ever read. Drawing upon years of experience and research with students from various cultural backgrounds, Wlodkowski and Ginsberg offer faculty a remarkable integration of theory and practice--full of the kinds of insights and strategies they can use today."

--Michael Nettles, professor, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan

Raymond J. Wlodkowski and Margery B. Ginsberg combine their respective expertise in motivation and multiculturalism to go beyond the usual rhetoric on promoting diversity, offering real-world guidance and suggestions for successful teaching in today's changing classroom environment.