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Multicultural Social Reconstructionist Education in Urban Geography: A Model Whose Time Has Come

Briefly describes several approaches to multicultural education including highlighting minority achievements and emphasizing human relations and social reconstruction. Argues that social reconstruction is the most productive approach for teaching urban geography. Social reconstruction examines the creation and perpetuation of inequality through the relationships of cultural subjugation, political subjugation, and economic exploitation. (MJP)

• Author/Creator: Darden, Joe T.
• Date Published: Jul
• Journal/Secondary Title: Journal of Geography in Higher Education
• Number: 2
• Volume: 21
• Year: 1997

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: Cultural Pluralism
• Subject: Educational Objectives
• Subject: Educational Responsibility
• Subject: Ethnicity
• Subject: Higher Education
• Subject: Ideology
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Political Issues
• Subject: Poverty
• Subject: Power Structure
• Subject: Social Responsibility
• Subject: Social Stratification
• Subject: Socioeconomic Status
• Subject: Urban Areas

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