Race, Community, and Urban Schools - Partnering With African American Families

Focuses on parents' self-defined roles within the context of race, urban development, and an economy that has created opportunity for some and displaced others. Moving beyond analysis to action, the author describes a partnering strategy to help educators understand the lived experiences of children and families and to use their funds of knowledge as resources for teaching.

About the author

Stuart Greene is associate professor of English with a joint appointment in Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His books include the coedited volume with Dawn Abt-Perkins, Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Racial Understanding, for which he won the National Council of Teachers of English Richard A. Meade Award in 2005.

Summary

Focuses on parents’ self-defined roles within the context of race, urban development, and an economy that has created opportunity for some and displaced others.  Moving beyond analysis to action, the author describes a partnering strategy to help educators understand the lived experiences of children and families and to use their funds of knowledge as resources for teaching.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Greene
• Assisted by: Donna E Alvermann (Editor), Donna E. Alvermann (Editor), Celia Genishi (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2013
• EAN: 9780807754658
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5465-8
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Language and Literacy Series; Language and Literacy; Language and Literacy Series; Language & Literacy; Language & Literacy Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries