Perspectives on Elementary Education A Casebook for Critically Analyzing Issues of Diversity

Name: Perspectives on Elementary Education A Casebook for Critically Analyzing Issues of Diversity
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ISBN: 9780205366613

ISBN-10: 0205366619

ISBN-13: 9780205366613

Edition: 2004

Authors: Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, Judith Campbell Reiff, Beverly D. Payne

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This supplemental text provides a collection of three dozen real-world case studies in diversity that foster discussion-based, active learning pedagogy designed to guide students in problem analysis and problem solving. The cases explore a wide-range of diversity issues at the elementary (Pre-K-5) level, including culture, academic performance and expectations, safety and prosocial behaviors, social issues, special needs, and issues surrounding the family. The approach organizes discussion around defining problems, identifying alternatives, and proposing solutions to the issues presented in the case. The goal of the text is not to pose a single solution, but rather to learn how to analyze…

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List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English




Using Diverse Cases: A Rationale and Suggested Guidelines


Philosophical Basis


Advantages of Case-Based Instruction


The Structure of this Text


Guidelines for the Use of Cases


Summary


References



Culture


References



Language: A Part of Who You Are




Teaching English as a Second Language: A Kindergarten Teacher's Perspective




Have Times Really Changed?




What One Catholic School Learned from Tom Sawyer's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!




Where Have All the Ipil-Ipil Trees Gone? Science Education Through the Politics of Poverty




Domestic Discrimination




An Elementary Education Experience of Adjustment and Transition




The Teasing of Than




Academic Performance and Expectations


References



Hallway Math Again?




When a Gifted Student Underachieves: A Dilemma for Teachers, Parents, and Counselors




Lifting the Veil on Gender Issues




Schooling Gifted Black Children: Issues of Parents and Teachers




To Retain or Not to Retain?




Safety and Prosocial Behaviors



Teasing the Traumatized Child




The Inconvenient Child




Mionda's Undergarments




You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover: Mr Smith Confronts Drug Use Among His Students




I am not going to...




To Tell the Truth




Moving on as Best We Can




Sudden Tragedy




Social Issues


References



A Trip to Reality: An Everyone Story




Dealing with Dishonesty




Ostracizing Rich




Go on into the HallYou're Excused from the Celebration: Religious Observance in a Public School Classroom




The Difficult Parent




Student Stress: It's 10:00 pm, Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?




Special Needs



Fighting for Robert




Dr Kent! Justin is being mean. . .




A Year Full of Challenges: Teaching a Student Who Is Deaf in a Regular Classroom




Chronic Illness and the Art of Juggling Medications, Instructional Activities, and Transportation




The Family



Another New Student? Susan Jordan Looks for Help with Her High Numbers of Mobile Students




William, the Conqueror




Jonathan's Story




My Brother Says You're a Fag




Many Faces of Homelessness



Author Index


Subject Index