{"product_id":"9780807771457","title":"Multicultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom: Approaches, Strategies and Tools, Preschool-2nd Grade","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis unique book features an array of approaches, strategies, and tools for teaching multiculturally in the early years. The teachers and classrooms portrayed here provide young children with rich educational experiences that empower them to understand themselves in relation to others. You will see how amazing teachers engage in culturally responsive teaching that fosters educational equity while also meeting state and national standards (such as the Common Core State Standards). This engaging book is sprinkled with questions for reflection and implementation that encourage educators to start planning ways of enhancing their own teaching, making their early childhood setting a more equitable learning space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Features:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eMulticultural education in action,including the everyday issues and tensions experienced by children and their families.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003ePowerful vignettes from diverse Head Start, preschool, kindergarten, 1st- and 2nd-grade classrooms throughout the United States.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eSections on “Getting Started” and “Considering Obstacles and Exploring Possibilities” in each chapter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eA list of multicultural children’s books and resources for further reading.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapters:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eMulticultural Tools and Strategies for Teaching Young Children\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eMulticultural Education as Transformative Education\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eInterviews: Encouraging Children to Ask Questions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eCritical Inquiry: Supporting Children’s Investigations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eCulture Circles with Multicultural Literature: Addressing Issues of Fairness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eCommunity Resources and Home Literacies: Developing Funds of Knowledge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eTechnology: Media(ting) Multicultural Teaching\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eStorytelling and Story Acting: Creating Spaces for Children to Negotiate Change\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cli\u003eReflecting on the Possibilities of Teaching Multiculturally: What Next? What If?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMariana Souto-Manning\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A profound, rich, and rewarding meditation and deep conversation with teachers fully engaging young children with culture, social history, and learning for the future. This wide-ranging book escapes temporal, spatial, and disciplinary boundaries. Read it and reflect on how you can take it into your own life of learning.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eShirley Brice Heath\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor Emerita, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Early childhood educators will experience this unique book as a warm and detailed invitation to engage in multicultural education. The emphasis throughout is on “multi”—multiple pedagogical approaches, from culture circles to podcasts to story acting, and multiple cultural heritages embodied by active children and teachers. From a critical perspective and alongside creative teachers who aspire to be transformative, Souto-Manning links accessible theory with rich and thoughtful practices.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cstrong\u003eCelia Genishi\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mariana Souto-Manning’s \u003cem\u003eMulticultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom\u003c\/em\u003e rightly places the use of deficit thinking and ineffective teaching strategies in the wasteland of classroom instruction. The author superbly documents and explains ways of teaching multiculturally that will richly benefit the learning of all students and make teaching become the \u003cem\u003efun\u003c\/em\u003e that teachers dreamed it would be when they first said, ‘I want to teach because I love kids.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cstrong\u003eCarl A. 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