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Overcoming Inequalities in Schools and Learning Communities: Innovative Education for a New Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 127

Overcoming Inequalities in Schools and Learning Communities: Innovative Education for a New Century

Educational inequalities have strongly impacted disadvantaged and underservedpopulations such us indigenous, Roma, migrant children, students with disabilities,and those affected by poverty. A wide array of research has contributed toexplaining the mechanisms and effects of inequalities in the achievement patterns,dropout rates, disengagement in the school experiences of children and youthtraditionally excluded. Research also suggests the negative consequences for childdevelopment – including cognitive, language, and social–emotional functioning – ofpoverty and lack of quality education in the early years. Consequently, the currentunequal access to optimal learning environments for eve...

Multicultural Strategies for Education and Social Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Multicultural Strategies for Education and Social Change

This book describes a different approach to teacher education designed to create "carriers of the torch"--teachers who have a sense of efficacy and the attitudes, dispositions, and skills necessary to teach students from diverse racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. Through her examination of teacher change and teacher education in two countries--the United States and South Africa--the author proposes new ways to prepare teachers for a rapidly changing global society.

Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning

This 2004 book represents a multidisciplinary collaboration that highlights the significance of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories to modern scholarship in the field of language and literacy. Book chapters examine such important questions as: What resources do students bring from their home/community environments that help them become literate in school? What knowledge do teachers need in order to meet the literacy needs of varied students? How can teacher educators and professional development programs better understand teachers' needs and help them to become better prepared to teach diverse literacy learners? What challenges lie ahead for literacy learners in the coming century? Chapters are contributed by scholars who write from varied disciplinary perspectives. In addition, other scholarly voices enter into a Bakhtinian dialogue with these scholars about their ideas. These 'other voices' help our readers push the boundaries of current thinking on Bakhtinian theory and make this book a model of heteroglossia and dialogic intertexuality.

Studying Diversity in Teacher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Studying Diversity in Teacher Education

Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done to address these issues. Second, it centers on research on diverse populations, bringing together both research on diversity and research on diversity in teacher education. The contributors present frameworks, perspectives and paradigms that have implications for reframing research on complex issues that are often ignored or treated too simplistically in teacher education literature. Concluding the volume with an agenda for future research and a guide for preparing teachers for diversity education in a global context, the contributors provide a solid foundation for all educators. Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a vital resource for all those interested in diversity and education research.

With More Deliberate Speed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

With More Deliberate Speed

This volume, edited by Arnetha Ball of Stanford University, examines Brown v. Board of Education historically, politically, and culturally from a literacy perspective. Features primary chapters from senior scholars, and commentaries by junior scholars. Contributors include Edmund Gordon, Beatrice Bridgall, John Baugh, Kris Gutierrez, Joyce King, Gloria Ladson-Billings, James Anderson, and Guadalupe Valdes.

Raciolinguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Raciolinguistics

Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. The book brings together a team of leading scholars- working both within and beyond the United States- to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world. Combining the innovative, cutting-edge approaches of race and ethnic studies with fine-grained linguistic analyses, chapters cover a wide range of topics including the language use of African American Jews and the struggle over the very term "African American, " the racialized language education debates within the increasing numb...

Black Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Black Linguistics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-08-19
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and colonial elements of language studies by drawing together the multiple perspectives of Black language researchers.

African American Literacies Unleashed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

African American Literacies Unleashed

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-12-13
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students. African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition Classroom approaches the issue of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in terms of teacher knowledge and prevailing attitudes, and it attempts to change current pedagogical approaches with a highly readable combination of traditional academic discourse and personal narratives. Realizing that composition is a particular form of social practice that validates some students and excludes others, Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner ac...

African American Literacies Unleashed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

African American Literacies Unleashed

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-12-13
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students. African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition Classroom approaches the issue of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in terms of teacher knowledge and prevailing attitudes, and it attempts to change current pedagogical approaches with a highly readable combination of traditional academic discourse and personal narratives. Realizing that composition is a particular form of social practice that validates some students and excludes others, Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner ac...

Teacher Education, Diversity, and Community Engagement in Liberal Arts Colleges
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Teacher Education, Diversity, and Community Engagement in Liberal Arts Colleges

Teacher Education, Diversity, and Community Engagement in Liberal Arts Colleges examines the promise of and issues related to preparing teachers for cultural diversity through community engagement in the liberal arts colleges. This book emphasizes the transformational power of community engagement to both teacher education and the small liberal arts college. Through a careful examination of literature and reflections on practice, Lucy W. Mule underscores the community-engaged approach to teacher education, emphasizing deep relationships with culturally diverse communities, community-based pedagogy, and a consideration of institutional contexts. Building on recent conversations in the areas o...