multicultural education

Presents illustrated instructions for a variety of simple crafts and activities that provide lessons on the customs of cultures around the world.

Shares the stories of teachers who have overcome the challenges of teaching in high-poverty urban communities and explains how other teachers can adapt their methods and strategies for their own classrooms.

Biography of Guadalupe Quintanilla, a woman who holds a doctorate degree in education, was instrumental in promoting a greater understanding among the Hispanic and white communities in Texas, and has worked with two presidents on civil rights issues.

Introduces a variety of festivals celebrated around the world. Includes recipes and hands-on activities to give a taste of what it is like to be part of a feast or ceremony in another country.

Provides strategies for differentiating instruction in diverse and inclusive classrooms to be sure all students meet standards, and includes real-world scenarios and references.

Draws on theory, practice, and ethnography to explore how teachers can create a foundation of diversity and antiracism in their classrooms.

Contains step-by-step techniques for arts and crafts projects from various cultures.

Examines the topic of classroom organization and management from a cultural perspective, describing a framework for understanding culture that focuses on the differences between individualistic and collectivistic cultural orientations, explaining how teachers can use the framework to understand their own cultural values, as well as those of their school and the children and families they serve, and includes examples.

Uses handicrafts to teach children about life on all of the continents.