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Doing Multicultural Education For Achievement And Equity

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Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity, a hands-on, reader-friendly multicultural education textbook, actively engages education students in critical reflection and self-examination as they prepare to teach in increasingly diverse classrooms. In this engaging text, Carl A. Grant and Christine E. Sleeter, two of the most eminent scholars of multicultural teacher education, help pre-service teachers develop the tools they will need to learn about their students and their students' communities and contexts, about themselves, and about the social relations in which schools are embedded. Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity challenges readers to take a truly active and ongoing role in promoting equity within education and helps to guide them in becoming highly qualified and fantastic teachers.

Features and updates to this much-anticipated second edition include:

• Reflection boxes that encourage students to actively engage with the text and concepts, along with downloadable templates available on Routledge.com
• "Putting It into Practice" activities that offer concrete suggestions for really "doing" multicultural work in the classroom
• Fictional vignettes that illustrate the real issues teacher education students face and the ways their own cultural attitudes can impact their response
• New coverage of issues pertaining to student achievement, federal and state policy, and socioeconomic connections between the current economy and educational funding
• A more comprehensive discussion about the different social movements that have affected education in the past and present

Teacher Quality & Student Achievement

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One of the major goals of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is to raise the achievement of students who currently fail to meet grade-level proficiency standards. Since student achievement is believed by many to depend in large part on effective teaching, the law also contains provisions designed to improve teacher quality. These provisions establish minimum teacher quality requirements and charge states and school districts with developing plans to meet them. This book examines implementation of the NCLB requirements and estimates the extent to which schools achieved the law's goal of placing a highly qualified teacher in every classroom.

Motivation, Educational Policy And Achievement

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Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement seeks to theorise and critique current trends in education through the lens of key ideas from motivational theory. Its purpose is to argue that current educational trends on a macro level are a significant threat to the provision of classroom practices seeking to create an educational environment that motivational theorists would argue is best placed to develop motivational equality, optimal motivation, and wellbeing.

Linking major contemporary theories of motivation to wider educational and political debate, this unique resource will bring about two major benefits: it will vocalise and mobilise the substantial research evidence from motivational theory in order to ensure that it contributes more explicitly to a critique of current neoliberal trends, and motivation researchers will be better positioned to move the theory forward in relation to what is happening in the real world of education. Areas covered include:

• developing a more critical space in relation to the field of motivational psychology and contemporary educational policy;

• linking motivational theory to education policy and broader social and political structures;

• the neoliberal educational landscape;

• an overview of achievement goal theory and self-determination theory.

Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement is a 'wake-up call' for educational practitioners and policy makers and essential reading for all advanced students and researchers in the fields of educational psychology and educational research.

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