 Defining and designing multiculturalism: One school system’s effortsreviewed by Karen Carrier - 2003  Title: Defining and designing multiculturalism: One school system’s effortsAuthor(s): Pepi Leistyna Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0791455084, Pages: 329, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com In Defining and designing multiculturalism: One school system’s efforts, Leistyna details his three-year study of a school district’s efforts to reverse decades of segregation, discrimination, and neglect of its culturally and linguistically diverse students. There is no mystery as to what the final outcome was because Leistyna lets us know immediately that, despite earnest and lengthy efforts, the Multicultural Central Steering Committee (CSC) of Changeton (Leistyna’s pseudonym for this large east coast school district) was unsuccessful in reducing the tension and remedying the social injustice endemic in the school system. Despite our foreknowledge of the disappointing results, there is plenty to learn here. Through his cogent and thorough analysis of the issues and efforts surrounding the CSC’s multicultural design, Leistyna gives us a different lens through which to examine our own efforts at implementing multiculturalism. Constituted in 1993 with the blessing of its superintendent, the CSC, a volunteer group of teachers, guidance counselors, and administrators, was charged with providing “a foundation for working toward mitigating the racism and cultural strife... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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