This benchmark 6-volume set documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the U.S. The volumes reflect the tenets of multicultural education, its history, its present, and individuals whose work has contributed significantly to equity and social justice for all citizens. By collecting and providing a framework for key publications spanning the last 30-40 years, this set provides a means of understanding and visualizing the development, implementation, and interpretation of multicultural education in American society.

The 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: Conceptual Frameworks and Curricular Content; Foundations and Stratifications; Instruction and Assessment; Policy and Governance; Students and Student Achievement; Teachers and Teacher Education. The historical time line within each volume illustrates the progression of research and theory on its theme and encourages readers to reflect on the changes in language and thinking concerning educational scholarship in that area.

Volume VI: Teachers and Teacher Education; Introduction, Preface to the six-volume set PART 1 Teacher Dispositions 1 Teacher expectations and race and socioeconomic status (1978) 2 Measurement of multicultural attitudes of teacher trainees (1982) 3 Implementing multicultural education: Elementary teachers’ attitudes and professional practices (1982) 4 Cultural Pluralism: Implications for teacher education (1979) 5 Prospective teachers’ perspectives on teaching diverse children: A review with implications for teacher education and practice (1993) 6 Cross cultural competency and multicultural teacher education (2000) PART 2 Teacher Preparation 7 Multicultural teacher preparation: An attitudinal survey (1981) 8 Education that is multicultural and the relationship between preservice campus learning and field experiences (1986) 9 Color blindness and basket making are not the answers: Confronting the dilemmas of race, culture, and language diversity in teacher education (1995) 10 Preparing teachers for culturally diverse schools: Research and the overwhelming presence of whiteness (2001) 11 Revealing the deep meaning of culture in school learning: Framing a new paradigm for teacher preparation (1995) 12 Making the rhetoric real: UCLA’s struggle for teacher education that is multicultural and social reconstructionist (1996) 13 Multiculture and special education teacher education accreditation (1979) 14 Special education and multicultural education: A compatible marriage (1984) 15 Equality is excellence: Transforming teacher education and the learning process (1986) 16 Teacher education and the politics of engagement: The case for democratic schooling (1986) 17 The use of emancipatory pedagogy in teacher education (1986) PART 3 The Model Teacher 18 Teachers of culturally disadvantaged American youth (1963) 19 Multicultural education: NCATE standard rationale (1978) 20 Multicultural preparation and teacher effectiveness in desegregated schools (1978) 21 Teachers for multicultural schools: The power of selection (1998) PART 4 Professional Development 22 Extending the possibilities of multicultural professional development in public schools (2001) 23 Improving multicultural teacher in-service: A CIPP planning model (1981) 24 A training program in Asian-American culture for elementary school teachers (1983) PART 5 Reflections of Praxis 25 Community involvement components in culturally-oriented teacher preparation (1982) 26 Position and imposition: Power relations in a multicultural foundations class (1991) 27 Dysconscious racism: Ideology, identity, and the miseducation of teachers (1991) 28 Teaching and learning through desire, crisis, and difference: Perverted reflections on anti-oppressive education (2000)