White Teacher - With a New Preface, Third Edition

Informationen zum Autor Vivian Gussin Paley (1929–2019), a longtime classroom teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, was a MacArthur Fellow and winner of the 1998 American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. Klappentext Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots. She also vividly describes what her readers have taught her over the years about herself as a "white teacher". Zusammenfassung Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white! middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface! she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots.

Product details

• Authors: Vivian Gussin Paley
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9780674002739
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00273-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Education > Kindergarten and pre-school education; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, Ethnic Studies, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, United States of America, USA, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional