Thomas E. Wren

Conceptions of Culture (eBook, ePUB)

What Multicultural Educators Need to Know

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The concept of culture stands, clearly but unsteadily, at the heart of multicultural education. This book provides a systematic, in-depth understanding of the role that culture plays in the massive literature of multicultural education as multiple and antithetical definitions of culture exist. The book also shows multicultural educators how to discern the definition used in any particular book or article. Thomas Wren deploys methods and concepts from philosophy and the social sciences to provide an analytic framework within which the history and current state of culture theory can be understood both for its own sake and for its educational significance. Although the book is full of theory, it is not a theoretical book in the usual sense. It is a road map, accompanied by the related theoretical information and tools that graduate students and faculty need to (1) navigate the complex terrain of multicultural education literature, (2) apply the book's analytical framework to that literature and to their own future practice, and (3) anticipate the social changes and accompanying conceptual changes in our notions of culture that are now occurring as part of the "cultural hybridity" of today's students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442216396
• Artikelnr.: 38307259

Autorenporträt

Thomas E. Wren is professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, where he directs the graduate program in social philosophy. He holds graduate degrees in education and English literature as well as philosophy and has published extensively on moral education and other educational themes. He is on the editorial boards of Theory and Research in Education and The Journal of Moral Education.

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