One Classroom, Many Worlds: Teaching and Learning in the Cross-Cultural Classroom

Jacklyn Blake Clayton challenges the notion of "tolerance" for cultural differences-a notion that implies resignation, passivity, superiority-and offers instead another challenge-to understand the building blocks of all cultures. This understanding is the keystone that holds together a variety of world views and creates a more solid structure for meaningful interactions between teachers and students.

Each chapter of her book looks at an aspect of culture that affects the classroom:

• how children are socialized
• how values can differ from culture to culture
• how learning styles may be influenced
• how verbal and nonverbal communication differ across cultures
• how immigrant children acculturate
• how the mainstream classroom in the United States has its own culture.