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In this revision of her best-selling book, author Sonia Nieto explores the meaning, necessity, and benefits of multicultural education for students of all backgrounds. The book looks at how personal, social, political, cultural, and educational factors affect the success or failure of students in today’s classroom. Expanding upon the popular case-study approach, the fifth edition examines the lives of 19 real students who are affected by multicul… More >>
Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education
Tags: Affirming, Context, Diversity, Education, Multicultural, Sociopolitical
#1 by Anonymous on March 9, 2010 - 3:23 am
I received the book in ample amount of time!! Thanks!!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on March 9, 2010 - 3:26 am
Well now, I know where some of the true Marxist are hiding. In this book, Nieto is trying to create equity policies in schools using taxpayer dollars. If she had her way, she would get rid of capitalism, social classes, and distribution of wealth. Of course, we have already seen how that works in the former Soviet Union (it doesn’t work at all). Yes, in a democratic-republic (Nieto always forgets the republic part) there is a dominant culture. Kind of why we call this a nation state, we have national culture. Unfortunately, Nieto is too busy saying the dominant culture is based on White European ideals. In fact, the ideals are based on Judaism, which is not European at all.
There are some aspects of diverse cultures that keep people down trodden in our society, and it is NOT restricted to the dominant cultures. But Nieto makes it sound as though it only happens to dominant cultures.
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by Thiago V. Leite on March 9, 2010 - 6:05 am
I had to buy this book for one of my classes in college; however I read the first two chapters of the book and stopped. Even though this book points out very important issues in today’s society, it is completely boring to the point that I could not finish reading the chapters. It is also highly overpriced. So save your money and buy another book concerning the same issues, as I was never able to finished reading it.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Sandra James on March 9, 2010 - 6:21 am
Was the required text for a graduate course and is pretty easy reading. As it is a textbook and in light of the topic, I’ll reserve further comment so as not to create any bias.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by W. Saunders on March 9, 2010 - 8:25 am
Diversity is defined as “referring to individuals’ social identities including age, sexual orientation, physical disability, socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, workplace role/position, religious and spiritual orientation, and work/family concerns.” (see American Psychological Association (APA) Policy guidelines on Multicultural Education, 2002; Loden, 1996, Loden 2002). This book does very little to further the advancement of that cause. Rather, it simply restates the same tire old arguments. Understanding human diversity for psychologists is certainly important. Some have argued that it is paramount to the good ethical practice, scholarship, and education of a psychologist (Brown, 2007). To that end, various diversity courses for Colleges and Universities in the United States were developed over the last several years, particularly since the publication of APA’s policy guidelines on multicultural education (Brown, 2007). Nevertheless, many, if not all, of the associated texts for Psychology of Diversity courses lack sociopolitical diversity in their analysis of the content of the body of literature available in the field (Redding 2001). Further, others have gone on to assert that this lack of sociopolitical diversity in Psychology of Diversity courses and texts may affect a student’s ability to properly and ethically offer human services (including therapeutic services) upon graduation or assist those who may represent minority sociopolitical views within the field of psychology but whom actually comprise the majority of the polity in American culture and whom the student is most likely to encounter as a client within a given agency, practice, or other mental health service provider organization (Wester and Vogel, 2002). There are many solutions to the problems in society conceptualized by the Psychology of Diversity field. Unfortunately, most solutions offered in the study of Diversity by the field of psychology tend to grow from a set of sociopolitical Liberal value-laden premises founded upon communitarianism, collectivism, centralized-planning, and trust in Government social welfare programs (Redding 2001; Redding 2002; Wester and Vogel, 2002). While sociopolitical Conservative and Libertarian values such as individual liberty, self-reliance, trust in private or faith based charity programs, trust in capitalism, and a strength-based (not victim or pathology based) psychology in the study of diversity are virtually absent from the field (Redding, 2001; Brown, 2007). Diversity books should help us to learn the greatest number of answers to helping ourselves, others, and society as a whole which will both alleviate suffering and build resilience in those that we may serve or encounter in the future public and private arenas of our vibrant American democracy.
Rating: 1 / 5