Understanding the Whole Student: Five Dimensions of Teaching and Learning

By Clifford Mayes, P. Rogers, Ramona Cutri, et al.

Book Overview

Understanding the Whole Student presents a holistic approach to multicultural educational issues by viewing them in terms of the student as a physical, psychosocial, cognitive, ethical, and spiritual being. Conversely, these levels of a student's being cannot be seen apart from the student's cultural identities. This unique book demonstrates that, in a pluralistic democracy, good teaching and deep learning must be multicultural and must look at the student as a whole being, not just as a future worker in a transnational corporate economy as is currently the case with both neo-liberal and neo-conservative programs for 'reform.' The authors contend that good education is, and must be, multicultural in order to gain a deeper perspective on issues under analysis in the classroom through the sharing and negotiating of many different cultural perspectives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578866707
• ISBN13: 9781578866700
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: R&L Education
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 1.1" x 6.0"