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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.
List 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
About the author
Alberto M. Bursztyn is Professor of Graduate Special Education and School Psychology at Brooklyn College and Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
