| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 121 pages) |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; DEDICATION; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; THE DETACHED TEACHER; Appeal to Numbers; A Case of Racist Teachers; THE DEFICIT THINKER; THE RUGGED MULTICULTURAL TEACHER; THE (IM)POSSIBLE MULTICULTURAL TEACHER; MR. POTTS; MS. DEGRAW; MEGAN; NOTE; CHAPTER 2: MR. POTTS'; DUAL LANGUAGE CLASSROOM; VIEWPOINT ELEMENTARY; Sociopolitical Context; District; Viewpoint Elementary Teachers; Dual Language up for a Vote; MR. POTTS'; DUAL LANGUAGE CLASSROOM; Placement Strategies. |
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MR. POTTS'; PROMISING PRACTICES; Poetry Contests; Multiplying by Eleven; Stop the Stigma; Parent-Teacher Conferences; LATINX ADVOCACY IN PERIL; Translation Sheets; English Reigns; Sheltered Spanish; Spanish as a Tool for Instruction; CONCLUDING REMARKS; CHAPTER 3: MS. DEGRAW'S ESL CLASSROOM; MS. DEGRAW'S CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE; DREW MIDDLE SCHOOL; SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT; Teachers; Community; Mrs. Richardson (The Principal); School District; MS. DEGRAW'S CLASS; Inclusive Assignments; CONCLUDING REMARKS. |
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CHAPTER 4: MEGAN'S SCHOOL SUCCESS CLASS; MEGAN; ESPLANADE; SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT; TEACHER AS SAVIOR; MEGAN AS HUMBLE LEARNER; SCHOOL SUCCESS CLASS; I'm Only Really Happy When I'm Miserable; Reframing Personalities; Final Exam: Reframing for Power; THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF SCHOOL SUCCESS; CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION; WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM CASE STUDIES?; WHAT BROUGHT THE TEACHERS TO MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?; HOW DID THE TEACHERS APPROACH MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION? |
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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; SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; FORMAL INTERVIEWS; INFORMAL INTERVIEWS; DATA ANALYSIS; REFERENCES. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Multicultural education -- United States.
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Multicultural education. |
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United States. |
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Teachers, White -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Teachers, White. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Milner, H. Richard, IV, writer of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Impossible multicultural teacher |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Pimentel, Charise, 1969- (Im)possible multicultural teacher. Rotterdam, The Netherlannds : Sense Publishers, [2017] 9789463511445 (OCoLC)1004746013 |
| ISBN |
9789463511469 (electronic book) |
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9463511466 (electronic book) |
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9789463511445 |
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946351144X |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-94-6351-146-9 |
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