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Sleeter, Christine E.; Zavala, Miguel – Teachers College Press, 2020
This timely and compelling book conceptualizes Ethnic Studies not only as a vehicle to transform and revitalize the school curriculum but also as a way to reinvent teaching. Drawing on Sleeter's research review on the impact of Ethnic Studies commissioned by the National Education Association (NEA), the authors show how the traditional…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Educational Change, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Torres-Velásquez, E. Diane; Sleeter, Christine E.; Romero, Augustine F. – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2019
"Martínez v. State of New Mexico" (2014) is a school finance and equity lawsuit built on the promises of the state constitution. The plaintiffs are 51 parents and their children across seven regions of the state (Torres-Velásquez, 2017). In its decision ("Martínez," 2018), the Court determined that the state's public education…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Public Education
Sleeter, Christine E.; Carmona, Judith Flores – Teachers College Press, 2016
In this second edition of her bestseller, Christine Sleeter and new coauthor Judith Flores Carmona show how educators can learn to teach rich, academically rigorous, multicultural curricula within a standards-based environment. The authors have meticulously updated each chapter to address current changes in education policy and practice. New…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Vignettes
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Sleeter, Christine E. – Intercultural Education, 2014
Multicultural education usually arises from a concern that schools prepare young people for constructive public participation as citizens in a diverse society that is struggling with equity issues. Conventional multicultural education, which I will critique, tends to assume a liberal conception of citizenship that is based on individualism and a…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Citizenship Education, Neoliberalism, Citizenship
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Sleeter, Christine E. – Urban Education, 2012
Globally, over the last two decades, attention to culturally responsive, multicultural approaches to teaching have largely been supplanted by standardized curricula and pedagogy that derive from neoliberal business models of school reform. In this essay, I discuss three factors that contribute to the marginalization of culturally responsive…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Multicultural Education
Grant, Carl A.; Sleeter, Christine E. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2006
This Fourth Edition contains many lesson plans that cover a variety of subject areas and grade levels (1-12), as well as action research activities that investigate the various dimensions of teaching. Many of the lesson plans are written by actual classroom teachers, and all of them have been examined by practicing teachers. More than simply a…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Lesson Plans, Action Research, Human Relations