Are you interested in a future in teaching, educational administration, or becoming a social worker or school psychologist? So there’s a book I’d like to recommend you read, and then I’d like to give you more insight than a fair assessment of this work.
“Multicultural education in a pluralistic society”, by Donna M. Gollnick and Philip C. Chinn, Pearson Merrill to Prentice Hall Company, Upper Saddle River, NJ, (2006), pp. 404, ISBN: 0-13-119719-3.
This book was quite interesting to me, first published in 1983 and has been updated and republished every few years since. I felt the book was very difficult to use because it has the Preface before the table of contents, which makes navigation very difficult. The preface is quite good and explains how the book is formatted.
Once in the book, it’s very easy to follow, even the dumbest idiot could use this book and understand it, maybe, that’s your target reader; at least this is the impression i got, and speaking of impression, i think this book is trying to brainwash “education student” who has impressionable mind, this is my opinion based on reading it.
In fact, as the coordinator of an online think tank, I was very concerned that such books would be used to train and teach new teachers and college professionals, and students entering the educational profession as administrators, teachers, psychologists, etc. There are chapters on social class, race, homosexuality, diversity, gender, religion, and age. There are subchapters like; hate groups
Racial Identification
Harassment
Self-esteem
sexual harassment
Anyway, you get the idea of what this wonderful book is about, unfortunately after reading it all I decided I really didn’t have room on my many book shelves. And I chose not to donate it to a thrift store, and I didn’t put it in the recycle bin: it went straight to the trash. But, I think this is a great book for a neoliberal socialist. And I recommend that you read this book so that you can understand how all this political correctness has permeated our society and how it started in academia.
This book also had everything reiterated and duplicated on a CD ROM with videos and continuous playback in each chapter. I guess this is for those in the academy who can’t read well and yet could still be teaching our boys and girls. Look, anyone who’s serious about teaching needs to understand how it all works and what it’s all about, even if you don’t agree with every aspect. This is why I read the book, and duly discharged it to where I believe it belongs. Please consider this.
