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Teaching Young Children in Multicultural Classrooms: Issues, Concepts, and Strategies

Name: Teaching Young Children in Multicultural Classrooms: Issues, Concepts, and Strategies
Author: Wilma Robles de Melendez
ISBN: 9781111837143

by Wilma Robles de Melendez, Verna Beck

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Overview

This comprehensive text/professional book on historical, theoretical, political, and sociological aspects of multicultural education as it relates to young children offers practical guidelines, curriculum ideas, and techniques for use in classrooms.

Synopsis

TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN IN MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS: ISSUES, CONCEPTS, AND STRATEGIES, Fourth Edition, is a comprehensive text on the historical, theoretical, political, and sociological aspects of multicultural education as it relates to young children. Featuring practical guidelines, curriculum suggestions, and techniques for use in the classroom, the book is appropriate for those studying to become early childhood teachers as well as being a comprehensive resource for practicing professionals. Updated with new statistics, references, and terminology, the fourth edition also includes new case studies, expanded coverage of standards and technology, an integrated video feature, and a more prominent emphasis on the benefits of teaching multiculturalism from a global perspective.
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About the Author, Wilma Robles de Melendez

Wilma Robles de Melendez, Ph.D., works for Nova Southeastern University and has been a professor of early childhood education for over two decades. She has written and published several articles in education journals as well as another text with Vesna Ostertag Beck for Delmar Learning: TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES IN EARLY EDUCATION.

Vesna Ostertag Beck, Ed.D., is a professor of early childhood education at Nova Southeastern University, where she has been working in the field for over two decades. Vesna has written and published several articles in educational journals, and is the co-author (with Wilma Robles de Melendez) of TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES IN EARLY EDUCATION.

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"I think the authors did a great job. The text covers most of the concepts needed to be taught and it also provides a lot of strategies."

"[The book is] well organized, easy to locate specific information in, and very thorough. I like the connections that are made to history, actual real world events, and experiences."