Creating a Home in Schools - Sustaining Identities for Black, Indigenous, and Teachers of Color

"Finding Home in Schools is primarily written to those readers who are BITOC as they negotiate and navigate the teaching profession, from pathway programs, to teacher education, and into the teaching profession. Along with academic concepts that assist those readers in making sense of their own experiences, it provides loving advice to those BITOC readers in the hopes that this will sustain them into and through the teaching profession"--

About the author

Francisco A. Rios, professor, and A Longoria, assistant professor, are both at Woodring College of Education, Western Washington University.

Summary

Provides advice to Black, Indigenous, and Teachers of Color (BITOC) to help sustain them into and through the teaching profession. Through an examination of BITOC in the education workforce, the assets that these educators bring to the teaching profession are identified, as are some of the most critical challenges they face in today's schools.

Product details

• Authors: James A. Banks, A Longoria, A. Longoria, Francisco Rios, Francisco A Rios
• Assisted by: James A Banks (Editor), James A. Banks (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780807765265
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6526-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 226 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Multicultural Education; Multicultural Education Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology