Defining and Designing Multiculturalism: One School System's Efforts

By Pepi Leistyna and Peter McLaren

An activist group works to bring a multicultural education program to an urban public school system.

Just outside a major urban center on the east coast of the United States an activist group struggled to create a system-wide multicultural education program. Through a seven-year qualitative study, Pepi Leistyna documents and interprets-via a critical pedagogical lens-this group's work with professional development, curriculum and instruction, faculty and staff, and community outreach. Through engaging examples, stories, and participant voices, Leistyna offers a comprehensive, accessible ethnography with implications for others who might attempt similar sorts of systemic change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791455084
• ISBN13: 9780791455081
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher