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Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability, 5th EditionNovember 2008, ©2010
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With a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, "Turning on Learning, Fifth Edition" shows students how to apply the principles of multicultural education in the classroom. This practical, lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grant’s "Making Choices for Multicultural Education:Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender" features additional lesson plans and new resource material, along with updates of existing lesson plans.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Turns Your Students On?
Chapter 2: Teaching the Exceptional and Culturally Different
Chapter 3: Human Relations
Chapter 4: Single-Group Studies
Chapter 5: Multicultural Education
Chapter 6: Multicultural and Social Justice Education
Chapter 2: Teaching the Exceptional and Culturally Different
Chapter 3: Human Relations
Chapter 4: Single-Group Studies
Chapter 5: Multicultural Education
Chapter 6: Multicultural and Social Justice Education
Author Information
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 America Educational Research Association.
Hallmark Features
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Updated demographic data in all lesson plans. Both group population demographics (e.g., use of latest census data) and published material (e.g. ,latest edition of a publication and adding more contemporary discussion to a topic) have been updated.
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Inclusion within current lesson plans attention to “poverty” and at least two new plans that deal with poverty.
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Inclusion within current lesson plans attention to “globalization” and new lesson plans that deal with the effects of globalization(e.g., outsourcing)
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Revision of the TOC for the lesson plans are more user friendly.



