Thomas E. Wren

Conceptions of Culture

What Multicultural Educators Need to Know

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book provides an in-depth understanding of the diverse meanings of culture in the literature of multicultural education. The author offers an analytic framework within which the history and current state of culture theory can be understood both for its own sake and its educational significance. The book enables readers to find their way through the massive literature of multicultural education, to apply the book's framework to their own future practice, and to anticipate changes in how culture is understood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9781442216372
• ISBN-10: 1442216379
• Artikelnr.: 35079879

Autorenporträt

Thomas E. Wren

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. Defining Culture and Multicultural Education: How To Do It, and
Why
Chapter 2. The Concept of Culture in the Social Sciences
Chapter 3. Topical, Structural, and Functional Conceptions of Culture in
the Professional
Literature of Multicultural Education
Chapter 4. Historical, Normative, and Behavioral Conceptions of Culture in
the Professional
Literature of Multicultural Education
Chapter 5. Cognitive, Symbolic, and Critical Conceptions of Culture in the
Professional
Literature of Multicultural Education
Chapter 6. Beyond the Critical Turn
References