Classroom Diversity

Author: Ellen McIntyre
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0325003327

Classroom Diversity: Connecting Curriculum to Students' Lives

Visit the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence! Why do we honor some students' background knowledge and ignore that of others? How can we build on the "gifts of diversity" in our classrooms? Classroom Diversity offers examples of teachers wrestling with these issues. Download Classroom Diversity: Connecting Curriculum to Students' Lives from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. It presents a new way to look at curriculum design and the learning that can result when we put students' funds of knowledge first. Classroom Diversity takes a "sociocultural" approach to curriculum design, which provides minority and working-class students with the same privileges that middle-class students have always had: instruction that puts their knowledge and experiences at the heart of their learning. It presents both the theor Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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