Charise Pimentel

The (Im)possible Multicultural Teacher (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Approach to Understanding White Teachers’ Multicultural Work

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The (Im)possible Multicultural Teacher: A Critical Approach to Understanding White Teachers’ Multicultural Work provides a nuanced examination of what committed and critical-minded White teachers can do to transform educational inequities in their racially and linguistically diverse classrooms. Drawing from an ethnographic research study with three White teachers working at elementary, middle, and high school levels, this book provides a theoretical frame for understanding teachers’ multicultural practices as well as three detailed case study chapters that document the teachers’ attempts at implementing multicultural practices. Within each case study chapter, the author defines the sociopolitical context in which the teachers work and that ultimately shapes the (im)possibilities of their multicultural practices. The ethnographic research data show that the teachers’ processes of implementing multicultural education are characterized by not only transformative pedagogies, but also pedagogical practices that take up and (re)produce the racial ideologies that make their multicultural endeavors difficult, if not impossible, to actualize. As the title of this book suggests, the author seeks to examine both the possibilities and impossibilities—the (im)possibilities—of White teachers implementing multicultural education

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SensePublishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789463511469
• Artikelnr.: 53057879

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Dedication; Introduction; The Detached Teacher; The Deficit Thinker; The Rugged Multicultural Teacher; The (Im)possible Multicultural Teacher; Mr. Potts; Ms. DeGraw; Megan; Mr. Potts’ Dual Language Classroom; Viewpoint Elementary; Mr. Potts’ Dual Language Classroom; Mr. Potts’ Promising Practices; Latinx Advocacy in Peril; Concluding Remarks; Ms. DeGraw’s ESL Classroom; Ms. DeGraw’s Critical Perspective; Drew Middle School; Sociopolitical Context; Ms. DeGraw’s Class; Concluding Remarks; Megan’s School Success Class; Megan; Esplanade; Sociopolitical Context; Teacher as Savior; Megan as Humble Learner; School Success Class; The (Im)possibilities of School Success; Conclusion; What Can We Learn from Case Studies?; What Brought the Teachers to Multicultural Education?; How Did the Teachers Approach Multicultural Education?; What (Im)possibilities Emerged from the Teachers’ Multicultural Practices?; What Are the Best Multicultural Practices?; What Is the Significance of This Study?; Is It All Worth It?; Appendix: Methodology; References; Index.