Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a balanced and comprehensive approach to multicultural education overview of the different types of diversity and practical strategies delivered through lesson plans and cases. A balanced approach for pre-service teachers and others new to the field of multicultural education, this text presents interdisciplinary content through primary source material and vignettes of actual teachers and students. Providing an in-depth focus in key areas as well as a broad overview, Christine Bennett aims to help prepare teachers who are informed and caring advocates for students from all cultural, racial, socioeconomic, linguistic, and national backgrounds. Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a teacher-tested curriculum development model accompanied by 26 lesson plans that focuses on core values, helping teachers make a stronger case for multicultural perspectives in their curriculums. Incorporating research from current sociology, history, and ethno-geography, the author makes key issues like immigration accessible for today’s teachers, emphasizing diversity within and across ethnic groups to help teachers understand interactions between students' cultural and individual differences. Read Less