New Horizons for Learning: Teaching and Learning Strategies

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Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies
by James Banks
Allyn and Bacon, 2003
ISBN 0-205-33720-1

Author James Banks is Russell F. Stark Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington and past president of the American Educational Research Association. This seventh edition of Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies is considered to be the best of its kind as a comprehensive resource for helping educators to understand and meet the needs of children of color.

Banks' book discusses how to plan and create a multicultural curriculum to help all students to learn more successfully in today's diverse classrooms. There are special chapters on American Indians, Hawaiians, African Americans, European ethnic groups, Hispanic, Asian, and Arab Americans, with specific teaching and learning strategies appropriate for each of these groups. The book also includes a history of these cultures in the U.S., a rich bibliography of resources on the Internet, videos and CD-ROMS, and other related books.

This is THE book on multicultural education for teachers, educational planners, school administrators, and students of education. It should also be read and studies by all serious students of education.

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