Cultural Competence: A Primer for Teachers and Educators covers the basics of multicultural education in less than 300 pages.
Diller and Moule's text offers the complementary perspectives of an educator (Moule) and a psychologist (Diller), paying special attention to the emotional issues that arise in educators' efforts to change their own attitudes, work against the grain in their settings, and incorporate a truly multicultural curriculum in their classrooms.
This distinctive book is already receiving high praise. Christine Sleeter of California State University, Monterey Bay, one of the leading authorities on multicultural education, writes: "By joining together multicultural counseling with multicultural education, Diller and Moule have created a wonderfully inviting and engaging introduction to cross-cultural teaching. Loaded with real-life stories, reflective exercises, and clear conceptual grounding, this book is exceptionally well-designed to help students engage in the developmental process of becoming competent cross-cultural teachers."
Features of Diller and Moule's text include:
- A focus on the development of cultural competence, which entails a combination of awareness and sensitivity, various bodies of knowledge, and a set of skills that, taken together, underlie effective cross-cultural teaching.
- Integration of theoretical and practical knowledge in an accessible, personally meaningful manner, peppered with fascinating anecdotes, personal experiences, and real-world examples.
- In-depth coverage of frequently overlooked topics such as bicultural families, isolated students (and teachers) of color, and white ethnics.
- Five final chapters that discuss individual ethnicities and include detailed original interviews with multicultural educators such as William Cross and Valerie Ooka Pang.
- A variety of self-assessment techniques focusing on prejudice and racism.
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