Improving Multicultural Education: Lessons from the Intergroup Education Movement

by Cherry A. McGee Banks

Book Overview

Intergroup conflict has been a perennial problem in the United States since colonial times. This book describes how a group of educators, social activists, and scholars tried to reduce intergroup tensions and create schools where people of all groups could learn together and from each other. Demonstrating the links between the current multicultural education movement and the roots of intergroup education, Cherry Banks helps us to understand where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807745073
• ISBN13: 9780807745076
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.0"