Multicultural Education: Strategies for Implementation in Colleges and Universities. Volume 3

This book provides pragmatic ideas and analyses from contributors with multicultural backgrounds and educational experiences, on how to implement multicultural education in college and university courses of study; and presents strategies for transforming both the curricula and the training of effective multicultural educators. Section 1 offer insights from their classroom experience and research in instructional strategies. The essays in Section 2 affirm how far-reaching and multifaceted multicultural education is, from how many perspectives it can be studied, and on how many levels it impacts curriculum. Section 3 contains papers that examine the creation of the climate for change. Chapters and their authors are the following: "Using Humor to Promote Multicultural Understanding" (Samuel Betances); "The Point of the Story" (Joan Livingston-Webber); "Teaching Education Majors How to Foster Resiliency in Their Students" (Kimberly A. Gordon); "Conflict and Resistance in the Multicultural Classroom" (Linda Dittmar); "Classroom Closets: The Invisible History of Gays and Lesbians" (R. Jovita Baber); "Multiculturalism in U.S. Society and Education: Why an Irritant and a Paradox?" (Carlos J. Ovando and Luise Prior McCarty); "Teaching About Race in the Race-Conscious United States (J. Q. Adams); "Understanding Asian Americans: A New Perspective" (Shin Kim); "Tech Prep: Preparation for Work Force Diversity" (Kerry A. Kerber and A. Anthony Falgiani); "Assessing the Effectiveness of Multicultural Curriculum Initiatives in Higher Education: Proving the Self-Evident" (Patricia L. Francis); "A Study of the Campus Climate: Methodology and Results" (Catherine A. Riordan); "Multicultural Perspectives in Counseling" (Edward Johnson and Linda S. Aguilar); "Postsecondary Education and Persons with Disabilities" (Judith J. Smithson); and "Moving Toward Justice, Equity, and Diversity at Western Illinois University" (Janice R. Welsch). Each chapter concludes with its own reference list. The volume also contains two appendixes: (1) "Multicultural Education: Voices of the Nineties--A Selective, Annotated Bibliography of Journal Articles, Special Journal Issues, and Books (Katherine Dahl); (2) "Film and Videos for the Multicultural Classroom" (Janice R. Welsch). (GLR)