Thomas E. Wren

Conceptions of Culture

What Multicultural Educators Need to Know

• Broschiertes 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: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9781442216389
• ISBN-10: 1442216387
• Artikelnr.: 35075480

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