History of Multicultural Education

This benchmark 6-volume set documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the U.S. By collecting and providing a framework for key publications spanning the past thirty-forty years, these volumes provide a means of understanding and visualizing the development, implementation, and interpretation of multicultural education in American society.

These volumes do not promote any one scholar's or group's vision of multicultural education, but include conflicting ideals that inform multiple interpretations. Each volume contains archival documents organized around a specific theme:





Volume 1: Conceptual Frameworks and Curricular Content

Volume 2: Foundations and Stratifications

Volume 3: Instruction and Assessment

Volume 4: Policy and Governance

Volume 5: Students and Student Learning

Volume 6: Teachers and Teacher Education

The historical time line within each volume illustrates the progression of research and theory on each theme and encourages readers to reflect on the changes in language and thinking concerning educational scholarship in that area. Readers will also see how language, pedagogical issues, and policy reforms have been constructed, assimilated, and mutated over the highlighted period of time.

Exploring the tenets of the field and examining the individuals whose work has contributed significantly to equity and social justice for all citizens, this landmark set illuminates the historical importance, current relevance, and future implications of multicultural education.

Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education at the University Wisconsin-Madison and Professor in the Department of Afro American Studies. He has served as President of the National Association for Multicultural Education (1993-1999), Editor of the Review of Educational Research (1996-1999), and member of the National Research Councila€?s Committee on Assessment and Teacher Quality (1999-2001), and chair of AERAa€?s Publication Committee. Dr. Grant is the recipient of the Angela Davis Race, Gender & Class Award from the Race, Gender & Class Project (1991), the Multicultural Education Award from National Association for Multicultural Education (1991), and the University of Wisconsin School of Education Distinguished Achievement Award (1997).

Thandeka K. Chapman is Assistant Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her research focuses primarily on the implementation and documentation of multicultural education practices, the effects of school desegregation policy on urban students and teachers, and tracking student success factors in urban high schools. Dr. Chapman's scholarly interests include ethical issues concerning the roles of the researcher in field research and the applications of critical race theory in education. Dr. Chapman was a recipient of the University of Wisconsin, Madison Graduate School Academic Opportunity Fellowship and the Carrie Barton Scholarship from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is also a founder of the FRONT program (Fearless Recruitment of New Teachers) at University of Wisconsin, Madison