Understanding Human Differences Multicultural Education for a Diverse America

Name: Understanding Human Differences Multicultural Education for a Diverse America
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ISBN: 9780205531042

ISBN-10: 0205531040

ISBN-13: 9780205531042

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Kent L. Koppelman, R. Lee Goodhart

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Students develop conceptual understanding about complex and emotionally-charged issues of diversity in todays world. The authors use clear examples, lucid language, and engaging activities to involve students in thinking through fundamental ideas that ground their understanding of diversity. Authors investigate three converging elements in their examination of human differences: individual attitudes and behaviors, cultural expectations, and institutional policies and practices. This examination provides the basis for the conceptual organization of the text. Race, class, gender, and diversity. Multicultural Education/Diversity as well as General Education courses.

Book details

List price: $104.20
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342

In 2000, Dr. Koppelman publishedValues in the Key ofLife, a book of essays on diversity and moral issues.Understanding Human Differenceswas first published in 2005. He is currently working on an anthology for Pearson addressing diversity issues. Dr. Koppelman is a professor emeritus at UW-La Crosse.




Individual Attitudes and Interpersonal Relations



Understanding Ourselves and Others:Clarifying Values and Language



Understanding Prejudice and its Causes



Communication, Conflict and Conflict


Resolution



Cultural Foundations of Oppression in the United States



Immigrants and Oppression: The Paradox ofNativism in a Nation of Immigrants



Race and Oppression: The Experiences of People of Color in America



Religion and Oppression: The Struggle for Religious Freedom



Rejecting Oppressive Relationships: The Logicof Cultural Pluralism for a Diverse Society



Contemporary Dilemmas for Intergroup Relations



Racism: Confronting a Legacy of White


Domination of America



Sexism: Where the Personal Becomes Political



Heterosexism: Transforming Homosexualityfrom Deviant to Different



Classism: Myths and Misperceptions about


Poverty



Ableism: Disability Does Not Mean Inability



The Challenge of Diversity to American Institutions



Pluralism in Schools: The Promise of Multicultural Education



Pluralism in Society: Creating Unity in aDiverse America


Afterword: How can Understanding Human Differences Resolve


Dilemmas in a Multicultural Society?


Glossary


Index