Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge and Action:Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

James A. Banks, Editor
1996/384 pp.

Overview

Essential to continued growth in the field of multicultural education is the documentation of it historical roots and its linkages to the current school reform movement. This book discusses, in turn: The types of knowledge, the characteristics of transformative knowledge, the historical roots of multicultural education, and its links to transformative teaching.

• The historical development of transformative scholarship, surveyed through case studies of individual pioneer scholars and activists such as Carter G. Woodson, Allison Davis, George I. Sanchez, Franz Boas, Mourning Dove, Ella Deloria, and Robert E. Park
• The work of women scholars and activists who have faced the triple oppression of race, gender, and class, such as Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Septima Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Patricia Hill Collins. Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt are the subjects of chapter-long case studies.
• The rise and fall of the intergroup education movement and the emergence of research related to prejudice in the 1930s and 1940s
• School reforms currently needed to promote educational equity and accommodate a culturally diverse and democratic society, especially language revitalization, curricular reform, and the role of Whites and multicultural education.

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