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Dismantling contemporary deficit thinking : educational thought and practice /

"Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It "blames the victim" for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students and students of color from learning. Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking provides comprehensi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Valencia, Richard R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.
Colección:Critical educator.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The construct of deficit thinking
  • 2. Neohereditarianism : pseudoscientific explanations for racial differences in intelligence
  • 3. Ruby Payne's mindsets of poverty, middle class, and wealth : a resurrection of the culture of poverty concept
  • 4. At-risk students or at-risk schools?
  • 5. Deconstructing deficit thinking : practical solutions for teacher educators, educational leaders, and educational ethnographers
  • 6. Conclusion : (A) the bankruptcy of the standards-based school reform movement : (B) toward the construction of meaningful school reform : democratic education.