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.