Confessions of a White Educator: Stories in Search of Justice and Diversity

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Provides a collection of stories and essays that offer an insightful analysis of the factors that limit and sometimes derail our best efforts to educate future generations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-29
Mått:216 x 279 x 16 mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
ISBN:9781465208934

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Studievägledning och yrkesorientering inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSECTION 1: Honoring Diversity Begins with Un-Learning Racism• How Does an Orphaned Culture Educate Its Children? Carlos Gonzalez Morales• The Elephant in the Classroom: Racism in School Reform, Joan T. Wynne• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 2: Searching for Justice Welcomes Everyone into the Dialogue • Welcome Home (Life in This Pigment), Mike Baugh• Reframing Urban Education Discourse: A Conversation with and for Teacher Educators, Wanda J. Blanchett and Joan Wynne• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 3: Exploring Wholeness Creates Possibilities for All Our Students to Soar• Inclusion into the Circle of Life, Catharine Yvonne Graham• Critical Global Math Literacy, Bob Peterson• Room 214: Nurturing an Evolving Classroom Culture, Princess Briggs• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 4: Seeing the Brilliance in All of Our Children Expands the Genius of Nations• Introduction from Multiplication Is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People's Children, Lisa Delpit• Inequities in Urban Education, Ruba Monem• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 5: Reflecting on Our Lives Fosters Critical Thinking in Our Classrooms• White People, You Will Never Look Suspicious! Michael Skolnik• Young Black Men in Miami, Renatto Hernandez• The Children Lead Me One Step At a Time, Alexandre Lopes• Funneling Students into the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Ron E. Miles• Teaching Brown v. Board of Education in Segregated Classrooms, Jeremy Glazer• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 6: Learning Respect for Other People's Language can Free Students' Minds • Who Talks Right? Joan T. Wynne • Hip Hop Culture: The Good, the Bad, and Invitations for Social Critique, Ron E. Miles• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 7: Raising the Voices of Youth Fosters the Building of an Authentic Global Village• Kids Can Be Activists or Bystanders, Craig Kielburger• We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: Young People Transforming Their Worlds, Joan T. Wynne• Running to the Digital Age, Maria Lovett• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 8: Listening to Children Pushed to the Margins Clears Space for Equity to Flourish• Creating Safe Spaces for All of the Nation's Students, Barbre S. Berris• A Wealth of Whammies for Youth in Poverty, Paul C. Gorski• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 9: Creating Democracy Requires Youth Participation in the Classroom and Out• The Ethics of Moving from Deficit Research to Youth Action Research, Joan T. Wynne• When I Learned How to Teach in a Context of Democratic Process, Ceextra Ren Hall• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 10: Teaching with Imagination and Courage Unshackles Our Spirits• So You Really Want to Be a Teacher? Carlos Gonzalez Morales• A Mother's Journal: How Do We Fill Our Schools with Great Teachers? Cindy Lutenbacher• How Do We Discern Between Apples from Math, and Teaching from Testing? Fernanda Pineda• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 11: Liberating Schools from Hegemony Inspires Teachers and Students to Excel• "Hello, Grandfather": Lessons from Alaska, Lisa Delpit • The Imagination Bubble: Worlds within Worlds of Resistance and Freedom, Alex Salinas• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 12: Knowing 'We Are the Leaders We Have Been Waiting For' Fosters Creativity• Teachers as Leaders in Urban Schools: Testimonies of Transformations, Joan T. Wynne• Grassroots Leadership for the 21st Century: Leading by Not Leading, Joan Wynne• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 13: "We Have All Walked in Different Gardens and Knelt at Different Graves" • Stories of Collaboration and Research within an Algebra Project Context: Offering Quality Education to • Students Pushed to the Bottom of Academic Achievement, Joan T. Wynne and Janice Giles • Should We Continue to Bring up Gender Issues in Education? Mildred Boveda• Activities and DiscussionsSECTION 14: 'Not Only Is Another World Possible ... She Is on Her Way' • School, Alex Salinas• Katrina Still Calls Our Names, Joan T. Wynne • Global Learning for the 21st Century: Are you Ready? Stephanie P. Doscher and Hilary Landorf• Activities and Discussions