Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education (5th Edition) |  | Authors: Sonia Nieto, Patricia Bode
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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In this revision of her best-selling book, author Sonia Nieto explores the meaning, necessity, and benefits of multicultural education for students of all backgrounds. The book looks at how personal, social, political, cultural, and educational factors affect the success or failure of students in today's classroom. Expanding upon the popular case-study approach, the fifth edition examines the lives of 19 real students who are affected by multicultural education, or a lack of it. Social justice is firmly embedded in this view of multicultural education, and teachers are encouraged to work for social change in their classrooms, schools, and communities. Inservice and preservice teachers, principals, school administrators and anyone interested in multicultural education.
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 Positive indepth look at multicultural education May 23, 2001
Marilyn B. Barrett (Nantucket)
23 out of 31 found this review helpful
Sonia Nieto has captured the essence of multicultural education because she focuses on real students in real classrooms. She helps teachers and teacher education candidates realize that their goals are the education of all the children in their classrooms and that those most different from the background of the teacher are the ones most in need of multicultural approaches. The goal is student learning, as she points out in her next book, The Light in Their Eyes, Creating Multicultural Learning Communities. I highly recommend this book to any teacher who works with children who speak other first languages than English.
This is one that will make you think. February 15, 2007
a reader in America
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Nieto did a fantastic job handling this subject and I love how challenged I am by it! It really causes you to think very deeply about multicultural education and the sociopolitical factors that come into play.
The case studies are the best part of this text, though. I love the fact that there are follow-ups in the back of the book for several of the kids!
Even if you think you know all there is to know about multicultural education, you will be surprised by how much you learn from this very well-written book.
Affiriming Diversity February 13, 2002
0 out of 29 found this review helpful
I received the book in ample amount of time!! Thanks!!
 Sonia Nieto cuts to the core of multicultural issues August 15, 2000
16 out of 25 found this review helpful
Affirming Diversity is an excellent text book for anyone involved in the field of education. This book is also a good read for parents. It reads fairly easily, and uses case studies to give insight to lessons. The case studies bring light to the experience of being a minority in a dominated culture. The book is written with sensativity and intelligent. Sonia Nieto is not afraid to write about the struggle, frustration and pain that minorities experience.
Too much about race and little coverage of cultures February 12, 2009
CGScammell (Southern Arizona)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The title of this book is badly mistitled. Although this book is well cited and thoroughly researched, the authors stressed African Americans over all other races. This is a book about multi-cultural education and yet the references were mostly about African Americans. Little research was given to Hispanics, Southeast Asians, Arabs and especially Native Americans. Women and girls are given footnoted references.
I do not disagree that racism does not exist in our schools. There are sound examples of racism in this country, and especially in our public schools where tracking, self-fulfilling prophecies, overuse of Special Education and underuse of Gifted Programs for minorities still happen. The authors blame the educators, though, and not the student who may not care to get an education even when offered. Afterall, Asian Americans seem to succeed in the classroom even though they are often face with the same discrimination as African Americans. Yet they are hardly mentioned or used in comparisons of how diversity CAN succeed in public schools.
Women and girls in this book are vaguely mentioned as "females" which always bothered me. Since girls make up half of the student body and represent unique issues in the classroom, why not grant them more studies to allow them to succeed more?
Although both Nieto and Bode are accomplished educators in high esteem, this book was hard to follow at times and at other times annoying. Many of the points could have been stated in shorter essays in education journals, giving this book somehow an air of "We needed the money so we compiled all these studies into one book!"
Don't get me wrong, though, as there were some good points mentioned in this book. Chapter 4, "Racism, Discrimination and Expectations of Students Achievement" was an eye opener.
I agree with a previous reviewer who stated that the authors should have used more Hispanic studies in their multicultural education studies. This book is about MULTI cultures and not just the Black race. For areas in the West and Southwest many of the references to African Americans are muted by the majority of Hispanic students in our schools who are still educated primarily by a white teaching staff.
This book was required reading for a college course. I plan on selling this book back after this semester.
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