Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep
African American Perspectives on the Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep: African American Perspectives on the Achievement Gap examines the origins and perpetuation of the achievement gap from the perspective of the African American community. Instead of accepting the achievement gap as an inevitable matter of fact, Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep...
Revealing the Invisible
Confronting Passive Racism in Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
This book examines and confronts the passive and often unconscious racism of white teacher education students, offering a critical tool in the effort to make education more equitable. Sherry Marx provides a consciousness-raising account of how white teachers must come to recognize their own positions...
The Coercive Community College
Bullying and its Costly Impact on the Mission to Serve Underrepresented Populations
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Few studies address workplace bullying in American higher education. Leah P.Hollis, EdD, author of Bully in the Ivory Tower addressed the issue of workplace bullying in four-year institutions. This volume replicates the study to reveal that 64% of community college respondents are affected by workplace...
Dysconscious Racism, Afrocentric Praxis, and Education for Human Freedom: Through the Years I Keep on Toiling
The selected works of Joyce E. King
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
A dynamic leader and visionary teacher/scholar, Joyce E. King has made important contributions to the knowledge base on preparing teachers for diversity, culturally connected teaching and learning, and inclusive transformative leadership for change, often in creative partnership with communities....
Sexual Identities in English Language Education
Classroom Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
What pedagogic challenges and opportunities arise as gay, lesbian, and queer themes and perspectives become an increasingly visible part of English language classes within a variety of language learning contexts and levels? What sorts of teaching practices are needed in order to productively explore...
A Pedagogy of Responsibility
Wendell Berry for EcoJustice Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Drawing on the theories of author and conservationist Wendell Berry for the field of EcoJustice Education, this book articulates a pedagogy of responsibility as a three-pronged approach grounded in the recognition that our planet balances an essential and fragile interdependence between all living...
by Jane Ward, Rachel Spacey
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Research consistently shows that Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Somali women have fewer English language skills, are less likely to secure sustainable employment, have lower incomes and have fewer opportunities to participate in social and civic society than women from other ethnic groups. The cumulative...
by Naresh Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
this book offers a philosophy not in the popular but mistaken sense of a canon to live and die for, but as one possible view and, therefore, as a tool--as a means of initiating, stimulating, guiding and supporting the efforts of music teachers as they tackle the many theoretical and practical issues involved in music education.
Classroom Cultures
Equitable Schooling for Racially Diverse Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This practical resource will assist secondary educators in creating equitable schooling environments for racially diverse youth. Classroom Cultures provides direct insight into the experiences, challenges, and successes of teachers and school leaders who were among more than 500 educators across 29...
"We Dare Say Love"
Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“We Dare Say Love” takes up the critically important issue of what it means to educate Black male students in a large urban district. It chronicles the development and implementation of the African American Male Achievement Initiative in Oakland Unified School District, following a small group...
Other People's Children
Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and *Choice Magazine’*s Outstanding Academic book award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s great books,” Other People’s Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This anniversary...
Cutting Class
Socioeconomic Status and Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
In these vivid, thought-provoking essays, leading scholars draw from their own life experiences to explore the ways in which socio-economic class has shaped their lives and educational practices. Some experienced the sting of poverty as students, while others tell stories of a privileged upbringing...
Culturally Proficient Instruction
A Guide for People Who Teach
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Are you doing all you can to improve teaching and learning?
Culturally proficient instruction is the result of an inside-out journey during which you explore your values and behaviors while evaluating practices of your workplace. In the newest version of their best-selling book, the...
Talking Diversity with Teachers and Teacher Educators
Exercises and Critical Conversations Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring content-specific strategies, assignments, and classroom activities, this book provides strategies to help pre- and in-service teachers develop the dispositions and knowledge they need to teach all students well. Focusing on the importance of creating a classroom community in which necessarily...