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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Vivian Gussin Paley
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9780674002739
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00273-9
• Pagine: 160
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia infantile e prescolare; 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