Critical Multiculturalism: Uncommon Voices in a Common Struggle

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This collection explores the way in which critical theory and practice can unite into a common vision of democratic hope. While each author has his or her own specialty, the thread of shared dreams is portrayed in a call for solidarity. The separate viewpoints are drawn together to constitute a democratic platform for an enlightened critical education agenda. From narrative to critical ethnography, case studies explore the multicultural and power struggles of states, districts, and schools. Intimately connected to all contributions in this collection is the commitment of each author to similarly share a common pregnancy of intention within a language of possibility.

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Fourteen educators here collaborate to present a volume that attempts to illuminate the most critical issues surrounding multicultural education: the content of the curriculum; gender, sexual identity, language, class, race and ethnicity: and the distribution of power....Those who hunger for articulated theoretical foundations for multicultural practice will find some interesting ideas.-Choice
"Fourteen educators here collaborate to present a volume that attempts to illuminate the most critical issues surrounding multicultural education: the content of the curriculum; gender, sexual identity, language, class, race and ethnicity: and the distribution of power....Those who hunger for articulated theoretical foundations for multicultural practice will find some interesting ideas."-Choice

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BARRY KANPOL is Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. He is the author of Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction (Bergin & Garvey, 1994) and Towards a Theory and Practice of Teacher Cultural Politics (1992). PETER McLAREN is Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education. He is the author of Cries from the Corridor: The New Suburban Ghettoes and Schooling as a Ritual Performance. He has edited Between Borders (1993) with Henry Giroux and A Critical Pedagogy of Representation: Rethinking Media Literacy (1994).