Understanding the Whole Student

Clifford Mayes is a professor of educational psychology at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He grew up between the Latino barrios and the Papago Indian Reservation in Arizona in the 1960s and has taught in Asia and Central America.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What is Holistic Multicultural Education and Why Should It Matter?1 Culture, Language and the Classroom2 President Lincoln Visits Mayfield High School: Six Students’ Perspectives3 The Sensorimotor Domain4 The Psychosocial Domain5 The Cognitive Domain6 The Ethico-Spiritual DomainConclusion: Teaching and Learning in the 21st CenturyBibliographyIndex

This may be the most important book on teaching and learning to have emerged in years. The authors have masterfully crafted an in-depth analysis of holistic education, while humanizing the multicultural experience as a pedagogical imperative. The text is well organized, clearly written, and meticulously researched. Faculty and students in teacher preparation programs, in graduate education programs, and those parents, administrators, and teachers working with children in today's classrooms will find this book timely, insightful, highly engaging, and critically essential. I applaud the authors for this most significant contribution to the field of education.