Teaching - Curricula, Multicultural Education

Multicultural Education: A Caring-Centered, Reflective Approach

Name: Multicultural Education: A Caring-Centered, Reflective Approach
Author: Valerie Ooka Pang
ISBN: 9780072985528

by Valerie Ooka Pang

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Overview

This text takes a personal and practical approach towards multicultural education. Instead of starting with theory and adding classroom applications as secondary content, Multicultural Education starts with what a teacher needs to know in order to be an effective multicultural educator. A strong theoretical foundation about caring-centered multicultural education is interwoven throughout the text in a manner that makes it relevant to the reader. The text’s strong practical approach, along with its reader-friendly and jargon-free upbeat writing style, make it ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses.

About the Author, Valerie Ooka Pang

Valerie Pang is a professor of teacher education at San Diego State University. Page earned a doctorate at the University of Washington in 1981. She was a Spence Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and studied achievement and test anxiety in Asian American students from 1987-1989. She is presently a senior fellow at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, holding an academic appointment to Brown University. In the summer of 1996 Pang was an invited scholar at the University of Washington’s Center for Multicultural Education and taught a class on Asian American children. In 1999 Pang was honored by the National Association for Multicultural Education with the Multicultural Educator Award for her local region for her work in the areas of culture and equity. In addition, Pang received the 1997 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Standing Committee on the Role and Status of Minorities in Education.