Bridging Cultures Between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers

by Elise Trumbull, Carrie Rothstein-Fisch, Patricia M. Greenfield

Book Overview

Bridging Cultures Between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers is intended to stimulate broad thinking about how to meet the challenges of education in a pluralistic society. It is a powerful resource for in-service and preservice multicultural education and professional development. The Guide presents a framework for understanding differences and conflicts that arise in situations where school culture is more individualistic than the value system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805835199
• ISBN13: 9780805835199
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Cultural Diversity in Education

Every educator should read this book. It is not only well written but hits at the center of how we can work with students and parents of diverse cultures. It is an attempt to give teachers and parents keys to understanding the socialization of different cultures so they can work together for the benefit of their children. As a culturally diverse county becoming more and more diverse, many students are being left out of the so called "American dream" by not getting the tupe of education that the privileged have so that they are left behind. It will take more than the "No Child Left Behind" to mend the fencds of our diverse culture and secure a good education for all children.