Multicultural Education in an Age of Globalization: Compelling Issues for Engagement is a well-timed book. In the United States, high profile political leaders are fanning the flames of intolerance and fear among the citizenry. Courts are refusing to hear cases of racial discrimination, businesses are overlooking employees of color for promotion and salary increases, and public schools are talking about equity and quality education; however, fewer and fewer resources are being allocated for that purpose. Global challenges are even more significant, with increasing poverty, health disparities, religious intolerance, gender inequity, and women empowerment impediments. I congratulate Dr. DomNwachukwu on his artful ability to piece together a historical overview of colonialism and its legacy with current issues of globalization, gender, religion, and economic challenges facing educators and families in the twenty-first century. Multicultural Education in an Age of Globalization: Compelling Issues for Engagement gives a sobering account of the challenges of diversity and multiculturalism an age of globalization. -- Sherwood Thompson, PhD, editor, Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice; president, The Association for the Advancement of Educational Research; president, The Association for the Advancement of Educational Research
I highly recommend Multicultural Education in an Age of Globalization: Compelling Issues for Engagement. Dr. DomNwachukwu provides the reader with a significant overview of the challenges and opportunities available to all of us as we consider these compelling issues-poverty, diversity, globalization, affirmative action, gender, race/ethnicity, and other multicultural issues. The use of U.S. court cases to further illustrate historic and contemporary legal opinion on these issues is a context that I found particularly helpful and insightful. At a time when there is much controversy and a seeming inability for civil discourse, Multicultural Education in an Age of Globalization is a book that will provide educators of all levels with the information and analysis foundational to greater understanding, which will then inform our capacity to facilitate critical conversations among our students and our colleagues. -- Lynn M. Gangone, EdD, President and CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
This author again mixes well-documented history, a wide range of contemporary sources, pertinent case studies, and his own personal commitment to social justice and effective education. -- Alan H. Jones, PhD, publisher, Caddo Gap Press; editor, Multicultural Education; executive secretary, California Council on Teacher Education
