New books reviewed

“Americanization” has been a goal of many programs for culturally and linguistically diverse students in America. This approach has not been successful. In its place is a need for forms of education that are directly relevant to the needs of culturally diverse children. While multicultural education is a necessary part of the early childhood curriculum, there is a need to go beyond muticultaralism, developing forms of education that allow all children to participate in “meaning making”.     

New books reviewed

?The Editor wishes to acknowledge with deep gratitude the permission obtained from Documentation Française to reproduce the abstract from “Les Institutions Sociales de la France”, 1980.