Teaching Young Children in Multicultural Classrooms

Issues, Concepts, and Strategies

This book is a comprehensive study of the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of multicultural education as it relates to young children. It addresses current and future trends to multicultural education and provides many practical classroom ideas for implementation. Key features include four different types of activities: "In Action", "Snapshots", "Focus on Classroom Practice" and end-of-chapter activities - "Things to Do"; lists of multicultural children's books are provided at the end of each chapter; text is supported with numerous photographs and illustrations, reinforcing the historical and present perspectives of diversity; and appendix includes a comprehensive list of multicultural children's books and additional activities.

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