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Gay, Geneva – 1994
This book is based on the simple premise that good teaching and multicultural teaching are indistinguishable. This premise is based on the belief that multicultural education is not a fringe or radical movement designed to threaten the basic mainstream of educational thought and practice. The child is the meaning-maker and that the teacher's task…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
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Gay, Geneva – Social Studies, 1997
Asserts that all of the major principles of political democracy are embedded in the tenets of multicultural education. Multicultural education facilitates the translation of principles of democratic living into practice for a society populated by people from many different ethnic, racial, cultural, and social backgrounds. (MJP)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Cultural Pluralism, Democracy