Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society, 11th edition

Published by Pearson (22 February 2020) © 2021

  • Donna M. Gollnick Retired, TEACH-NOW Graduate School of Education and Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation
  • Philip C. Chinn California State University, Los Angeles, Professor Emeritus

Title overview

For courses in multicultural / multiethnic education.

An up-to-date, balanced examination of the issues of race, diversity and equity in society, how they are reflected in schools and their impact on students

Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society provides an unbiased look at today's many different cultural groups. It emphasizes the importance of building on the cultures and experiences of students to help them achieve optimal learning.

The 11th Edition has been updated with new issues in the chapter features, recent events and research that have impacted the topics addressed in the book. All tables, figures and references are updated to reflect the latest data and thinking.

Hallmark features of this title

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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

New and updated features of this title

  • NEW: Revisiting the Case Study: Reflect and Apply features bring students back to the chapter-opening case study, 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.
  • 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.
  • UPDATED: Foundations of Multicultural Education includes a new section on hate that addresses hate groups and their rising visibility in the United States.
  • UPDATED: Race and Ethnicity includes an expanded discussion of indigenous groups in the U.S. to include Alaska Natives, American Indians and Native Hawaiians.
  • UPDATED: Class and Socioeconomic Status includes a new section, “Struggles against Economic Injustice,” which provides a historical context for the economic inequalities in the U.S.
  • UPDATED: Gender includes an expanded discussion of gender identity that describes the gender fluidity that exists today. Several more chapter updates are included.

Table of contents

  1. Foundations of Multicultural Education
  2. Race and Ethnicity
  3. Class and Socioeconomic Status
  4. Gender
  5. Sexual Orientation
  6. Exceptionality
  7. Language
  8. Religion
  9. Geography
  10. The Youth Culture
  11. Education That Is Multicultural

Author bios

About our authors

Donna M. Gollnick is an education author and consultant in multicultural education and teacher education. She currently is a member of the Early Childhood Higher Education Accreditation Commission of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Between 2013 and 2018, she was the Vice President for Quality Assurance at the TEACH-NOW Graduate School of Education, an online post-baccalaureate program. Previously, she was Senior Consultant at the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), the Senior Vice President of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), Director of Professional Development for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) and a secondary teacher in South Bend and Carmel, Indiana. Dr. Gollnick is the coauthor of Introduction to the Foundations of American Education: Becoming Effective Teachers in Challenging Times (17th edition) and An Introduction to Teaching: Making a Difference in Student Learning (3rd edition). She is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). Donna has been recognized as a distinguished alumna by the College of Consumer and Family Sciences at Purdue University and the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California and received an Advocate for Justice Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).

Philip C. Chinn is a professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught multicultural education and special education and served as Special Education Division chair. He served as special assistant to the Executive Director for Minority Affairs at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), where he coordinated the first national conferences on the Exceptional Bilingual Child and the Exceptional Black Child. He served as vice president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) and coeditor of Multicultural Perspectives, the NAME journal. NAME named its Multicultural Book Award in his honor. He has coauthored 2 special education texts. He also served on the California State Advisory Commission for Special Education. He is a recipient of the President's Award from the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) and the Advocate for Justice Award from the American Association for Colleges for Teacher Education (NCATE).

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