Multicultural Education and Prejudice Prevention
Reviews the book, Preventing Prejudice: A Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents (2nd ed.) by Joseph G. Ponterotto, Shawn O. Utsey, and Paul B. Pedersen (see record 2006-05043-000). This book is on a mission. There is the clear sense throughout the book of the imperative duty for counselors, e...
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Veröffentlicht in: | PsycCritiques 2006-09, Vol.51 (39), p.No Pagination Specified-No Pagination Specified |
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Zusammenfassung: | Reviews the book, Preventing Prejudice: A Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents (2nd ed.) by Joseph G. Ponterotto, Shawn O. Utsey, and Paul B. Pedersen (see record 2006-05043-000). This book is on a mission. There is the clear sense throughout the book of the imperative duty for counselors, educators, and parents to confront prejudice and to work toward a more just and harmonious society. The authors clearly convey their heartfelt devotion to this end both explicitly, in their calls for social justice, and implicitly, by their meticulous attention to detail and comprehensiveness. In fact, in reading the book, the reviewer got the sense that she was being mentored personally by experienced professionals in this area who truly wanted to pass on their years of acquired experience to compel and to enable me to meet the challenges of confronting prejudice in both applied and research settings. The breadth of this book is remarkable, and the authors clearly took on a daunting task to pull such a considerable range of topics into one book. They begin with the basics, including terminology and the theoretical underpinnings of prejudice, discrimination, and racism. They discuss the impact of prejudice from the perspective of both the target and the perpetrator, provide an overview of various models of racial identity development for minorities as well as White racial identity development, and discuss the development of a multicultural personality and its inherent value in an increasingly diverse society. The authors then focus on the specific and unique roles of counselors, teachers, and parents in reducing prejudice, and a chapter is devoted to each role. These chapters are followed by a sampling of exercises to be used in prejudice-reduction programs in elementary and middle schools, in high schools, on college campuses, and in the community. The book then concludes with a review of measurement scales to be used for research and a list of available resources for education, including books, films, and national organizations. Finally, a number of measures are included in their entirety in the appendixes, which include specific details regarding their use, psychometric properties, and scoring procedures. Clearly, the argument could be made that each of these topics could be a book by itself, and here lies both the greatest strength as well as the biggest limitation of Preventing Prejudice. That is, to be so comprehensive, the authors provide considerable brea |
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ISSN: | 1554-0138 1554-0138 |
DOI: | 10.1037/a0003606 |