Understanding the Whole Student
Author | : Clifford Mayes |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781475813906 |
ISBN-13 | : 1475813902 |
Rating | : 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Download or read book Understanding the Whole Student written by Clifford Mayes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Whole Student presents a holistic approach to multicultural educational issues by viewing them in terms of the student as a physical, psychosocial, cognitive, ethical, and spiritual being. Conversely, these levels of a student's being cannot be seen apart from the student's cultural identities. This unique book demonstrates that, in a pluralistic democracy, good teaching and deep learning must be multicultural and must look at the student as a whole being, not just as a future worker in a transnational corporate economy as is currently the case with both neo-liberal and neo-conservative programs for 'reform.' The authors contend that good education is, and must be, multicultural in order to gain a deeper perspective on issues under analysis in the classroom through the sharing and negotiating of many different cultural perspectives.