Multicultural education : issues and perspectives Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives 10e is designed to help current and future educators acquire the concepts paradigms and explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally racially linguistically and social class diverse classrooms and schools. An important goal of this book is to help teachers attain a sophisticated understanding of the concept of culture and to view race class gender social class and exceptionality as interacting concepts rather than as separate and distinct. Consequently intersectionality or how race class gender and exceptionality are fluid variables that interact in complex ways is an overarching concept in this book. Racial cultural ethnic linguistic and religious diversity presents both opportunities and challenges to educators. Diversity continues to increase in the United States. There is a wide and growing ethnic cultural social class and linguistic gap between most of the nations teachers and their students. Teachers are faced with both the challenges and opportunities of dealing with diversity creatively and constructively in their classrooms and schools Multicultural education : characteristics and goals James A. Banks Culture teaching and learning Christina Convertino Bradley A. Levinson and Norma González Social class and education Lois Weis Seong Won Han and Hyunmyung Jo Christian nation or pluralistic culture : religion in American life Charles H. Lippy Gender bias : past present and future David Sadker Karen Zittleman and Melissa Koch Classrooms for diversity : rethinking curriculum and pedagogy Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault Queer lessons : sexual and gender minorities in multicultural education Cris Mayo Approaches to multicultural curriculum reform James A. Banks Backstage racism : implications for teaching Leslie H. Picca and Ruth Thompson Miller Language diversity and schooling Rachel Snyder and Manka M. Varghese Civic education for non citizen and citizen students James A. Banks Educational equality for students with disabilities Sara C. Bicard and William L. Heward Culturally responsive special education in inclusive schools Luanna H. Meyer Hyun Sook Park and Saili Kulkarni School reform and student learning : a multicultural perspective Sonia Nieto and Patty Bode Communities families and educators working together for school improvement Cherry A. McGee Banks Classroom Aasessment and diversity Catherine S. Taylor and Susan B. Nolen.