chapter Introduction part Part 1 The Marginalization of Multicultural Discourse chapter 1 Research and Multicultural Education: Barriers, Needs and Boundaries chapter 2 The Marginalized Discourse of Minority Intellectual Thought in Traditional Writings on Teaching / Beverly M.Gordon chapter 3 Multicultural Education: From a Compensatory to a Scholarly Foundation / Ellen Swartz part Part 2 Conducting Multicultural Education Research chapter 4 Reflections on the Researcher in a Multicultural Environment / Lois Weis chapter 5 Using Quantitative Methods to Explore Multicultural Education / Gary Glen Price chapter 6 Using Multiple Strategies to Assess Multicultural Education in a School District chapter 7 Manifestations of Inequality: Overcoming Resistance in a Multicultural Foundations Course / Roberta Ahlquist chapter 8 Culturally Relevant Teaching: The Key to Making Multicultural Education Work / Gloria Ladson-Billings chapter 9 Riding the Wave: Collaborative Inquiry Linking Teachers at the University and the Urban High School chapter 10 The Language Minority Student and Multicultural Education chapter 11 Success Stories / Lourdes Diaz Soto chapter 12 Relationships Between Home, Community and School: Multicultural Considerations and Research Issues in Early Childhood chapter 13 Teacher Education Programs and Increasing Minority School Populations: An Educational Mismatch? / Mary Lou Fuller part Part 3 The Social Impacts of Multiculturalism in Education chapter 14 Schools and Opportunities for Multicultural Contact chapter 15 Multicultural Education: Policies and Practices in Teacher Education / Donna M.Gollnick chapter 16 Policy Analysis of State Multicultural Education Programs / Robert Crumpton.