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Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (December 22, 2017) © 2018

  • Sonia Nieto
  • Patty Bode Tufts University in Affiliation with The Amherst Regional Public Schools

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For courses in multicultural education.

Explore the sociopolitical context of multicultural education

Affirming Diversity examines the social, economic and political factors that affect students' success or failure in the classroom. It presents a conceptual framework for understanding multicultural education, including extensive research and data on the sociopolitical nature of schools and society. Real cases and stories offer a first-hand look into the diverse lives of students and educators.

The 7th Edition considers current policy, practice and legislation while outlining a model of multicultural education that affirms diversity, encourages critical thinking and leads to social action.

Hallmark features of this title

  • A conceptual framework to multicultural education explores its meaning, necessity, and benefits for students from all backgrounds.
  • Engaging case studies and snapshots of real, diverse students illuminate the need for multicultural education and its effects.
  • Activities for Personal, School and Community Change engage readers with plenty of practical suggestions to effect change.
  • To Think About features help students reflect on their reading, activate learning, and promote retention.
  • What You Can Do features challenge future teachers to confront the issues of multicultural education in their own communities and classrooms.
  • Multicultural Teaching Stories highlight the important role teachers play in changing classrooms and schools.

New and updated features of this title

  • NEW/UPDATED: Cutting-edge research and thoroughly updated references and definitions give readers an accurate view of the field today.
  • NEW: Case study focuses on Delilah Rogers. Within the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, she reflects on the role of schools in either silencing or supporting student voices in talking about race (Ch. 3).
  • NEW: Snapshot highlights two brothers, a 7th grader and a senior. One identifies himself as a straight white male, and they both discuss white privilege (Ch. 3).
  • NEW: What You Can Do features include Promoting Racial Literacy in your Classroom and School (Ch.3) and Become Knowledgeable About Arab and Arab American Students Beyond Academics (Ch. 8).
  • UPDATED: About Terminology features clarify questions about what we call people and how to identify respectful language that describes group affiliations.

Brief Contents


Part I: Setting the Stage: Multicultural Education Within a Sociopolitical Context

Chapter 1: Understanding the Sociopolitical Context of Schooling

Chapter 2: Defining Multicultural Education for School Reform (by Sonia Nieto)


Part II: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Multicultural Education

Chapter 3: Racism, Discrimination, and Expectations of Students’ Achievement

Chapter 4: Structural and Organizational Issues in Classrooms and Schools

Chapter 5: Culture, Identity, and Learning

Chapter 6: Linguistic Diversity in U.S. Classrooms

Chapter 7: Understanding Student Learning and School Achievement


Part III: Implications of Diversity for Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society

Chapter 8: Learning from Students

Chapter 9: Adapting Curriculum for Multicultural Classrooms (by Patty Bode)

Chapter 10: Affirming Diversity: Implications for Teachers, Schools, Families, and Communities

About our authors

Sonia Nieto has dedicated her professional life to issues of diversity, equity and social justice. With experience teaching students at all levels from elementary grades through graduate school, currently she is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The author of 11 books and numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the recipient of many awards for her research, advocacy and activism, including the Multicultural Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education and the Social Justice in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association. She is also the recipient of 8 honorary doctorates.

Patty Bode combines nearly twenty years in PK to 12 classrooms, and a decade in higher education, to inform social justice perspectives in her current work as the principal of Amherst-Pelham Regional Middle School in Massachusetts Public Schools. Patty's research, teacher leadership and community collaboration focus on imaginative school structuring and curriculum reinvention. She has received awards for efforts in antiracist and anti-bias curriculum reform and bridging theory and practice in multicultural education, including the 2017 Art Educator of the Year for Supervision and Administration of the Eastern Region by the National Art Education Association, the 2016 Women's Caucus Carrie Nordlund Award in PK to 12 Feminist Pedagogy, also from NAEA, and 2005 Multicultural Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education.

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