Reclaiming Democracy Multicultural Educators' Journeys Toward Transformative Teaching

Name: Reclaiming Democracy Multicultural Educators' Journeys Toward Transformative Teaching
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ISBN: 9780130945211

ISBN-10: 0130945218

ISBN-13: 9780130945211

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jaime J. Romo, Paula Bradfield, Ramon Serrano

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This innovative book gives voice to the challenges and rewards of transformative teaching through 17 first-person narratives by a panoply of diverse authors who have made a life of advocating forall students. These essays showcase the barriers, biases, and fears that must be overcome in the process of developing a personal and professional identity as an educator. Encourages prospective teachers to realize the need for transformative teaching and commit to the often-uncomfortable task of becoming more inclusive and more socially just within their own classrooms. Covers all major topics addressing diversity, advocacy, identity development, and multicultural teachingimmigration, social class,…

Book details

List price: $62.20
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100



Foreword


Preface



Immigration. Introduction: Themes of Immigrants Advancing Democracy



Voice of the Heart: Storytelling and the Journey of Advocacy



My Ethnography



From Gangs to Teaching: Transforming my Past to Help Others



Social Class


Introduction: Themes of Social Class-Intersecting""Haves"" and ""Have Nots""



Letting go and Breaking Loose: Struggling Toward Transformative Teaching



Embracing my Cultural, Intellectual, and Spiritual Identities on my Journey to Become a Transformative Teacher



Universal Human Rights Begin Close to Home



On Becoming a Transformative Teacher: What should I do? How should I do it? And why?



Racial And Ethnic Identity


Introduction: Themes of Power, Privilege, Race, and Identity



Understand Them All: Identity and Advocacy



Safe and Growing out of the Box: Immersion for Social Change



Immersion and Rebellion: Growing up and out of South Carolina



My Personal Journey - In Part



The Miseducation, Re-education and Transformation of a ldquo;Whiterdquo; Male Educator Working for Social Justice



The Praxis Of Culturally Relevant Teaching


Introduction: Themes Relecting Critical Thought and Action-Praxis



Something That Won't Compute: A Journey of Adult Literacy



Turning Points: A Teacher's Journey



Small Schools: A Metaphor for Caring



Woman Warrior Liberating the Oppressed and the Oppressor: Cultural Relevancy through Narrative



Hurting, Healing, Helping: A Pedagogy of Identity, Recovery, and Voice


Afterword: Struggles for Recognition and Redistribution