Lisa Delpit

Other People's Children (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The classic, groundbreaking analysis of the role of race in the classroom and a guide for teaching across difference, from the MacArthur Award-winning educator "Phenomenal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice." -San Francisco Review of Books

In this groundbreaking, radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit develops the theory that teachers must be effective "cultural transmitters" in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and assumptions often breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers educate "other people's children" and perpetuate the imbalanced power dynamics that plague our system.

Now a classic of educational thought and a must-read for teachers, administrators, and parents striving to improve the quality of America's education system, Other People's Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original publication. Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award and Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, this anniversary edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as important framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781595586544
• Artikelnr.: 39932247

Autorenporträt

MacArthur Award winner Lisa Delpit is the Felton G. Clark Professor of Education at Southern University. The author of the bestselling Other People's Children and "Multiplication Is for White People," co-editor (with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy) of The Skin That We Speak, and editor of Teaching When the World Is on Fire (all published by The New Press), she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Editor's Note ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction to the 2005
Edition xiii Introduction xxi PART 1: CONTROVERSIES REVISITED Skills and
Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator 11 The Silenced Dialogue 21
Language Diversity and Learning 48 PART 2: LESSONS FROM HOME AND ABROAD The
Vilis Tokples Schools of Papua New Guinea 77 "Hello, Grandfather” 91
Teachers' Voices 105 PART 3: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Cross-cultural
Confusions in Teacher Assessment 135 The Politics of Teaching Literate
Discourse 152 Education in a Multicultural Society 167 Reflections on Other
People's Children HERBERT KOHL 185 Teaching the Hard of Head CHARLES M.
PAYNE 188 Other People's Children: The Lasting Impact PATRICIA LESESNE 193
Notes 201 Index 215

Rezensionen

Phenomonal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice."San Francisco Review of Books

Here, finally, is multiculturalism with a human face."Teacher Magazine

Provides an important, yet typically avoided, discussion of how power imbalances in the larger U.S. society reverberate in classrooms."Harvard Educational Review

?Phenomonal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice."?San Francisco Review of Books

?Here, finally, is multiculturalism with a human face."?Teacher Magazine

?Provides an important, yet typically avoided, discussion of how power imbalances in the larger U.S. society reverberate in classrooms."?Harvard Educational Review