Synopses & Reviews
Living (and Teaching) in an Unjust World is a response to educators who limit multicultural education to "culture of the quarter" or "country of the week." A resource for teachers who live and teach in the real world, where family structure is fluid, varied, and changing; where students live in mansions, duplexes, projects, or cars; where parents work in factories, fast food restaurants, farms, or universities. A world where every learner is a lifelong learner and every student is valued.
Together, these essays will take you into issues of multicultural education more deeply than you have probably ever ventured before. You'll embark on a journey into educational systems and explore the just and unjust issues of schooling . . . the need to move beyond teaching about culture to facilitating self-discovery . . . the way classrooms mirror larger society. And by the end of this journey, you'll reach some remarkable conclusions: that multicultural education has its foundations in democratic classrooms . . . that multicultural education is most easily facilitated when students are empowered . . . and that multicultural education is the best path to true equity in education.
Synopsis
These essays will take you into issues of multicultural education more deeply than you have probably ever ventured before.
About the Author
Wendy Goodman is a bilingual education elementary school teacher in Tucson, Arizona. A product of the Detroit public schools, Wendy has always lived, studied, and worked in multicultural settings. She is the coauthor of three other books, including If This Is Social Studies, Why Isn't It Boring?
Table of Contents
Living (and Teaching) in an Unjust World, D. Goodman
Listen to the Rhythm, D. Horan
Discovering First-Grade Curriculum in The Empty Pot, W. Goodman
Questions of Power and the Power of Questions, J. Pryor
Turning Over the Wheel, C. Karns
Mediating Different Worlds, A. Heras & E. Craviotto
Literacy Liberation with Trade Books in Social Studies, T. Caron
"We've Never Read Any Books About Laos," K. Davies-Samway
A Different Spin on Parent Involvement, L. Patterson & S. Baldwin
The Wheel of Advocacy, A. Edmonds
Affirming Difference While Building a Nation, O. van den Berg
Becoming a Multicultural Educator, D. Cristol
International Students, International Teachers, M. Maitland-Heroit
Using Critical Questioning to Investigate Identity, Culture, and Difference, J. Gladstein
Sparking the Conversation, N. Gallavan
Finding the Freedom to Teach and Learn, and Live, J. Wink