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Rethinking Multicultural Education Case Studies in Cultural Transition
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Carol Korn, Alberto Bursztyn
Foreword by Joe Kincheloe
Book Code: H544
ISBN: 0-89789-544-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-544-6
240 pages
Bergin & Garvey
Publication: 3/30/2002
List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals.
    —Choice     October 2002
  • For teachers and teacher-trainees, particularly graduate students of education.
    —Reference & Research Book News     August 2002
Description: Korn and Bursztyn and their contributors examine the cultural transitions that children make as they move between the cultures of home and school. To better understand these transitions, they explore how educators understand their students' shifting experiences and examine how educators also negotiate transitions as they too move from home to school each day. The narratives or case studies reflect this shifting gaze: from child, to teacher, to parents, and take up the various relational configurations that these can form, amongst and between each other. They turn a critical eye toward instances of classroom practice and school life, connecting personal knowledge with school change. In some cases, the authors draw directly on autobiographical material, linking these to a reflective approach to teaching. Avoiding the celebratory tone that often attends discussions of multiculturalism, the authors address how diverstiy engages us in continual renegotiation of the personal and social. The perspectives of educators and of teacher candidates are presented, and the construction of cultural identity and its impact on schools, explored. In illuminating the complicated nature of cultural transitions and the obligation of schools to create places in which children and families of diverse backgrounds can thrive, they highlight how multiculturalism can play a transformative role in the lives of children and schools. A must reading for educators and graduate students in education, school psychology, guidance and counseling.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Exploring a Transformative Multiculturalism--Justice in a Zeitgeist of Despair by Joe L. Kincheloe
  • Preface by Alberto M. Bursztyn
  • Introsuction: Cultural Transitions and Curricular Transformations by Carol Korn
  • Silenced Voices: A Case of Racial and Cultural Intolerance in the Schools by Deborah Nelson and Margaret R. Rogers
  • Redefining School Culture: Creating New Traditions for Bicultural Students by Vernita Zubia and Beth Doll
  • Issues of Class and Race in Education: A Personal Narrative by Cheryl C. Holcomb-McCoy
  • Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge: The Geography of Social and Cultural Transitions by Carol Korn
  • An Ecological Perspective on Preparing Teachers for Multicultural Classrooms by Helen Johnson
  • Facing the Terror Within: Exploring the Personal in Multicultural Education by Peter Taubman
  • Transforming the Deficit Narrative: Race, Class, and Social Capital in Parent-School Relations by Hollyce C. Giles
  • The Path to Academic Disability: Jacier's School Experience by Alberto Bursztyn
  • Conclusion: Reflections on Collective Identities by Alberto Bursztyn
  • Further Readings
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001043011
LCC Class: LC1099
Dewey Class: 370
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