256 pages
152 x 227mm
ISBN-10: 1 57922 147 5
ISBN-13: 978 1 57922 147 8
Pub date: April 2006
Published by Stylus Publishing, LLC
Subject: Education
Description:
For African Americans, school is often not a place to learn but a place of low expectations and failure. In urban schools with concentrations of poverty, often fewer than half the ninth graders leave with a high school diploma.
Black and White teachers here provide an insightful approach to inclusive and equitable teaching and illustrate its transformative power to bring about success.
This book encourages reflection and self-examination, calls for understanding how students can achieve and expecting the most from them. It demonstrates what's involved in terms of recognizing often-unconscious biases, confronting institutional racism where it occurs, surmounting stereotyping, adopting culturally relevant teaching, connecting with parents and the community, and integrating diversity in all activities.
This book is replete with examples of practice and telling insights that will engage teachers in practice or in service. It should have a place in every classroom in colleges of education. Its empowering message applies not just to teachers of Black students, but illuminates teaching in every racially diverse setting.
Contributors: Ann Miser, Academic Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Hawaii o Miles Anthony Irving, Professor, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Georgia State University o Jane Nicolet, School of Education faculty, Colorado State University o Bridgie A. Ford, Dept of Curricular and Instructional Studies, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio oSharon Ishii Jordan, Professor, Creighton University o Verna Cornelia Price, University of Minnesota, Consultant, Service Learning o Julie Landsman, Consultant, teacher, Minneapolis Schools o Gloria Ladson Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education o President-Elect, AERA, University of Wisconsin-Madison o Paul Gorski, Assistant Professor, Hamline University o Joseph L. White, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry o University of California, Irvine o Robert Simmons, Teacher, Riverside Elementary School, Rochester, MN o Verna Cornelia Price, President / Principal Consultant, J. Cameron & Associates o Bruce B. Douglas, Esrom Pitre and Chance Lewis, Colorado State University) oDorothy Garrison-Wade, University of Colorado at Denver o Stephen Hancock, Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte o Carolyn Holbrook, Parent, Writer, Professor, Hamline University St. Paul, MN
Author: Julie Landsman is a consultant and teacher in the Minneapolis Schools, and the author of A White Teacher Talks about Race (ScarecrowEducation, 2001), acclaimed by Publisher's Weekly as "impressive" and 'impassioned.'
Chance W. Lewis is assistant professor at the School of Education, Colorado State University and founder and Chairperson of the African American Research Consortium.
Reviews:
"The preparation of a highly qualified teacher workforce has become a national priority. In an unusual turn, the discussion of 'quality' has centered solely on forms of knowledge and the ability to show the acquisition and demonstration of content and competencies. The place and importance of dispositions and clinical skill in teacher practice are largely absent from the national discourse. White Teachers/Diverse Classrooms is an intellectually rich conversation starter. This book explores the myriad considerations needed to create schools that serve all learners. Chief among the requirements is highly qualified teachers-those who are committed to advancing the intellectual development of all learners because each one has the potential to do great things." - Sharon P. Robinson, President and CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
"When people read the title of this book, their initial reaction might be that this is another 'blame game.' However, this book is about one of the most persistent and well documented fault lines in our schools: the educational achievement gap between minority and non-minority students and the critical role of all teachers, particularly white teachers, in eliminating it. White Teachers / Diverse Classrooms is both a practical road map and an appeal to all teachers to re-dedicate themselves to ensuring that all students are prepared and can meet high educational standards-not simply for their sake, but for the future of America and all of her citizens." - Mary H. Futrell, Dean of the Graduate School of Education & Human Development, The George Washington University and former president of the National Education Association