Understanding the whole student : holistic multicultural education

Summary: "Understanding the Whole Student presents a holistic approach to multicultural issues by viewing them in terms of the student as a physical, psychosocial, cognitive, ethical, and spiritual being. Conversely, these levels of a student's being cannot be seen apart from the student's cultural identities. This book demonstrates that, in a pluralistic democracy, good teaching and deep learning must be multicultural and must look at the student as a whole being - not just as a future worker in a transnational corporate economy, as is currently the case with both neoliberal and neoconservative programs for "reform." The authors contend that good education is, and must be, multicultural in order to gain a deeper perspective on issues under analysis in the classroom through the sharing and negotiating of many different cultural perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 1578866707 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1578866693 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781578866700 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781578866694 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: vii, 204 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Pt. I. Foundations of Multicultural Education -- 1. Core Issues in the Cultural Foundations of Education -- 2. Language and Education -- Pt. II. The Four Domains of Multicultural Education -- 3. The Sensorimotor Domain -- 4. The Psychosocial Domain -- 5. The Cognitive Domain -- 6. The Ethicospiritual Domain -- Conclusion: Teaching and Learning in the Twenty-first Century.