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Against the Multicultural Agenda: A Critical Thinking Alternative

Against the Multicultural Agenda: A Critical Thinking Alternative

Webster, Yehudi O.

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General EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0275958760
ISBN13: 9780275958763
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Aug 30 1997
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.59
Language: English
This is a pioneering work, timely, scholarly, and grounded in critical-sociological, anthropological, and philosophical traditions. It offers an empathic analysis of pluralist, Afrocentric, and postmodernist advocacies of multicultural education and multiculturalism, but reveals formidable flaws in their conceptions of gender, race, culture, knowledge, learning, and social change. It is required reading for those desiring a synopsis of the literature on multicultural education and multiculturalism, and an understanding of the disputes among the various schools of thought. The author claims that multiculturalism is Inot R a remedy for problems of sexism, racism, and educational underachievement among ethnic minorities. Rather, so questionable is multiculturalism's endorsement of biological classifications, so relativistic and moralistic are its arguments on cultural differences, and so negligent its analysis of human reasoning that it has become a political pawn. Read Against the Multicultural Agenda to discover what is wrong with the multicultural agenda and what is powerfully persuasive about the alternative--critical thinking.

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