Turning On Learning: Five Approaches For Multicultural Teaching Plans For Race, Class, Gender, And Disability

Theories about diversity don't mean anything until you actually put them into practice. Now with Grant and Sleeter's Fourth Edition of "Turning on Learning," you'll learn how to apply the principles of multicultural education in your classroom.

This practical lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grant's "Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender" contains a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans covering a variety of subject areas for grade levels K through 12. The Fourth Edition features additional lesson plans and new resource material. All of the remaining lesson plans were updated.

Explore the latest theories about multicultural issues in the classroom
"Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender, Fifth Edition
"Christine E. Sleeter and Carl A. Grant
ISBN: 0-471-74658-4

Focusing on what multicultural education actually "looks like" in the classroom, the Fifth Edition of "Making Choices for Multicultural Education" encourages you to examine the latest theoretical perspectives on multicultural education, as well as your own personal beliefs about classroom diversity.

About the Authors

Carl Grant is Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University Wisconsin-Madison and Chair of the Publication Committee of the American Education Research Association. He is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education.

Christine Sleeter is Professor Emeritus at California State University-Monterey Bay and Vice President of Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, of the American Educational Research Association.

This new Fourth Edition contains many lesson plans that cover a variety of subject areas and grade levels (1-12), as well as action research activities that investigate the various dimensions of teaching. Many of the lesson plans are written by actual classroom teachers, and all of them have been examined by practicing teachers. More than simply a "how-to" manual, it is designed to help the teacher or teacher education student teach from a multicultural perspective. Each lesson plan offers a "Before" version (the lesson as it is usually taught) and an "After" version (how the lesson can be improved to "turn on" learning). A discussion explaining why the changes were made follows each lesson plan.