Features in each chapter illustrate how concepts and events play out in a classroom or school

UPDATED - Chapter-Opening Classroom Scenarios place the chapter content in an educational setting. Accompanying questions encourage readers to think about the scenario and reflect on the decisions they would make. (See Chs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 11 for new Scenarios.)
NEW - Revisiting the Case Study: Reflect and Apply features bring students back to the chapter-opening case study, now with the knowledge and strategies they have gleaned from the chapter. Application questions challenge students to consider how they would apply their knowledge of the chapter content to their own teaching.
UPDATED - Critical Incidents in Teaching features present both real-life and hypothetical teaching situations to let readers examine their feelings, attitudes, and possible actions or reactions. (See Chs 3, 8, and 10 for new features and Ch. 11 for an expanded feature.)
NEW - Explore and Focus Your Cultural Lens features present contemporary and controversial school issues and include for and against statements to consider. New self-reflective questions as well as end-of-feature questions guide readers to reflect on their own attitudes and biases towards the topics covered, to critically analyze both sides of the issue, and to take a side and support their choice. (See Chs. 1, 4, and 11.)

Updated and expanded content addresses important contemporary issues in society and schools

UPDATED - Foundations of Multicultural Education: Chapter 1 includes a new section on hate that addresses hate groups and their rising visibility in the United States. The section on privilege has been revised to clarify our membership in both privileged and non-privileged groups.
UPDATED - Race and Ethnicity: Chapter 2 includes an expanded discussion of indigenous groups in the U.S. to include Alaska Natives, American Indians, and Native Hawaiians. The section on the “Struggle for Civil Rights” now addresses the antecedents to the civil rights movement and the status of racial equality today. Chapter 2 clarifies and expands on the issues of racism and Whiteness, which are central in political and educational discussions today.
UPDATED - Class and Socioeconomic Status: Chapter 3 includes a new section, “Struggles against Economic Injustice,” which provides a historical context for the economic inequalities in the U.S.
UPDATED - Gender: Chapter 4 includes an expanded discussion of gender identity that describes the gender fluidity that exists today. The new “Explore and Focus Your Cultural Lens” feature asks students to think about the issues related to transgender students’ use of bathrooms in schools. Chapter 4 has an updated and expanded discussion of the struggles for gender equity that includes the #MeToo movement. The importance of the influence of intersectionality and the interaction of gender with one’s racial, ethnic, class, and religious identity has been clarified and expanded.
UPDATED - Sexual Orientation: Chapter 5 includes an updated and enhanced discussion of the struggles for sexual equity and a new section on sex education in today’s schools.
UPDATED - Exceptionality: Chapter 6 includes an enhanced section on athletics and individuals with disabilities, including the World Games and the promotion of the Invictus Games by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. Also included is coverage of lead poisoning as a contributing factor in disability in children and the Flint, Michigan, water crises.
UPDATED - Language: Chapter 7 has updated information on bilingual education including dual language immersion programs. Also addressed are the efforts to dismantle bilingual education and a California law reversing some of these attempts.
UPDATED - Religion: Chapter 8 has a new section relating to current critical issues facing some of the religious denominations today, such as possible schisms, and clergy abuse issues. The relationship between religion and the current political climate in the U.S. is addressed.
UPDATED - Geography: Chapter 9 includes a new section on the Northern Triangle, the three countries where most of the Central American immigrants are fleeing from and the reasons for their mass exodus. Also included are the effects of globalism and how the #MeToo movement has spread across the globe.
UPDATED - The Youth Culture: Chapter 10 includes an extensive description of Generation Z (or iGen) and new coverage on adolescent substance abuse including the use of e-cigarettes and opioid addiction. A new section is included on Generation Alpha, the children of millennials.
UPDATED - Education That Is Multicultural: Chapter 11 includes new sections on reality pedagogy, culturally sustaining pedagogies, and making classrooms democratic.

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