Irvine, Jacqueline Jorden & Armento, Beverly Jeanne (2001).
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Lesson Planning for Elementary and
Middle Grades.
New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
This book provides teacher education students with a variety of culturally responsive lesson units and activities in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. The work is impressive in that it provides lesson plans, activities, and examples for instructional use in all academic disciplines. The book moves beyond the superficial "heroes and holidays" approach to multiculturalism and offers pedagogical tools that challenge student into higher order thinking skills. For example, the chapter for social studies is excellent because it offers a focus on education for citizenship with the use of primary sources and documents that the students can analyze, all in a culturally sensitive way. The activities and handouts are interesting and offer real chances for interactive teaching and learning. This book is highly recommended to teacher education students and professors of education who wish to integrate diversity and multiculturalism into curricula in a meaningful way.
