An Educator's Guide to Diversity in the Classroom - Softcover

Carl Grant is one of the nation's leading scholars in the field of multicultural education. He is currently Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where his research and teaching interests include Multicultural Education, Teacher Education, Preservice and Inservice Education, and Urban Education. Dr. Grant is the author of numerous books and journal articles. Among his most recent publications are AN EDUCATION GUIDE TO DIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM (Houghton-Mifflin, 2003), TURNING ON LEARNING: FIVE APPROACHES TO MULTICULTURAL TEACHING PLANS FOR RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND DISABILITY, (with Christine Sleeter; Third Edition published by Wiley, 2003); and GLOBAL CONSTRUCTION OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION (with Joy Lei; Erlbaum, 2001). Dr. Grant has taught the Introduction to Education course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for many years.

James M. Cooper is Professor Emeritus from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where he served as Commonwealth Professor of Education (1984-2004) and Dean of the School (1984-1994). As Dean of the Curry School of Education, he led the initiative to restructure the teacher education program, moving to an innovative five-year program that integrates the study of arts and sciences, professional education, and field experiences. In addition, he has authored, co-authored, or edited over 60 book chapters, journal articles, monographs, and books, including TEACHING FOR STUDENT LEARNING: BECOMING A MASTER TEACHER (with Kevin Ryan, © 2012, Cengage); THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH, 14th Edition (with Kevin Ryan and Cheryl Bolick, © 2016, Cengage); KALEIDOSCOPE: CONTEMPORARY AND CLASSIC READINGS IN EDUCATION, 13th Edition (with Kevin Ryan, © 2012, Cengage), and CLASSROOM TEACHING SKILLS (©2014, Cengage), for which he served as editor and one of the authors. He is also series editor of the Educator's Guide series (Cengage). His books and articles address the areas of teacher education, supervision of teachers, case studies in teacher education, and technology and teacher education. Cooper has also received many honors, including a Fulbright-Hays Award for Lecturing in Portugal and recognition as one of the nation's Distinguished Teacher Educators from the Association of Teacher Educators.