Language, Culture, and Teaching - Critical Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita of Language! Literacy and Culture at the College of Education! University of Massachusetts Amherst! USA. Zusammenfassung Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features, offering information, insights, and motivation to teach culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Language! Literacy! and Culture: Aha! Moments in Personal and Sociopolitical Understanding Part I: Setting the GroundworkChapter 1: What is the Purpose of Schools? Reflections on Education in an Age of FunctionalismChapter 2: Multicultural Education and School Reform Chapter 3: Revisiting the High Hopes and Broken Promises of Public Education: Still an Uncertain Future Part II: Identity! Learning! and BelongingChapter 4: Culture and LearningChapter 5: Lessons from Students on Creating a Chance to Dream Chapter 6: The BC 44! Ethnic Studies! and Transformative EducationPart III: Developing a Critical Stance Chapter 7: Profoundly Multicultural QuestionsChapter 8: Affirmation! Solidarity! and Critique: Moving Beyond Tolerance in Multicultural Education Chapter 9: Becoming Sociocultural Mediators: What All Educators Can Learn from Bilingual and ESL TeachersPart IV: Praxis! Hope. And the FutureChapter 10: Nice is Not Enough: Defining Caring for Students of ColorChapter 11: Doing Their Part: Teachers as Leaders in Multicultural EducationChapter 12: Critical Hope? In Spite of it All

Product details

• Authors: Sonia Nieto, Nieto Sonia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138206144
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20614-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series; Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Secondary Schools, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Primary & middle schools, Multicultural education, Moral & social purpose of education, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Primary and middle schools, Educational strategies and policy