Diversity, Transformative Knowledge, and Civic Education: Selected Essays
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Part 1 Race, Knowledge Construction, and Transformative Curriculum Reform -- Introduction -- Knowledge Construction and My Epistemological Journey -- The Citizenship Education Dilemma -- Democratic Civic Education -- Part 1: Race, Knowledge Construction, and Transformative Curriculum Reform -- Part 2: Cultural Democracy and Civic Education in Diverse Nations -- Part 3: Diversity, Global Migration, and Civic Education -- References -- 1 The Canon Debate, Knowledge Construction, and Multicultural Education -- Valuation and Knowledge Construction -- The Nature of Knowledge -- Positionality and Knowledge Construction -- A Knowledge Typology -- The Types of Knowledge -- Personal and Cultural Knowledge -- Popular Knowledge -- Mainstream Academic Knowledge -- Transformative Academic Knowledge -- Transformative Scholarship since the 1970s -- School Knowledge -- Teaching Implications -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 The Historical Reconstruction of Knowledge about Race: Implications for Transformative Teaching -- The Social Context, Knowledge Construction, and Intellectual Leaders -- The Emergence of Racism in the 19th Century -- The Construction of Knowledge about Race in the 1800s -- Efforts within Minority Communities to Reconstruct Knowledge about Race: The Work of Franz Boas -- Challenges to Racial Theories from the Mainstream -- African Americans and the Construction of Knowledge about Race -- African American Race Reconstructionists -- Kelly Miller -- W. E. B. DuBois -- The World War II Period, the Rise of Nazism, and the Reconstruction of Race -- Knowledge about Race Is Reconstructed in Mainstream Social Science Discourse -- Differences between White and African American Race Constructors.