220 pages
228mm x 156mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 187 6
ISBN-13: 978 185856 187 5
'In lucid and engaging prose, Sonia Nieto communicates how educators and policy-makers can ensure that all children experience personal affirmation and powerful learning at school. This book is essential reading for everybody who cares about education and the future of our increasingly diverse society.' - Jim Cummins, OISE, University of Toronto
'I recommend this book to all educators who want to improve our schools and to create a more caring and humane society'. - Professor James A.Banks, Series Editor.
This book is a marriage of hope and critique. In its construction of a critical mutlicultural education, it is as timely and relevant to the UK and Europe as it is to North America. Sonia Nieto, a leading theorist in critical multiculturalism, shows how teachers can transform their practice and their schools so as to pro mote the learning of the students who have not, so far, benefited from their schooling. By focusing on them, she demonstrates how the requisite fundamental shifts in attitudes, policy, pedagogy and practice can benefit all students.
In The Light in Their Eyes, Sonia Nieto makes student learning the primary objective of multicultural education. Going beyond 'curriculum integration,' Nieto draws on a host of research in learning styles, multiple intelligences, and cognitive theories to portray the ways in which students learn. She takes us beyond individual learners to discuss the social context of learning, the history and manifestations of educational equity, the influence of culture on learning, and critical pedagogy. This inspirational book includes the reflections of teachers who have transformed their own practice and whose experiences will be invaluable to other teachers.
For teachers, beginning teachers and their mentors, and for courses on education, educational psychology and sociology.
Sonia Nieto is Professor in the School of Education of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Published with Teachers College Press, Columbia USA.
