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The Dreamkeepers : Successful Teachers of African American Children.

In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ladson-Billings, Gloria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester : Wiley, 2013.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • THE DREAMKEEPERS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD TO THE NEW EDITION; PREFACE; THE AUTHOR; 1 A Dream Deferred; The Current Climate; Separate Schools or Special Schooling?; A Study of Effective Teaching for African Americans; 2 Does Culture Matter?; The Notion of Cultural Relevance; How Teachers See African American Students; A Group Profile of the Teachers Who Participated in the Study; 3 Seeing Color, Seeing Culture; The Basics of Culturally Relevant Teaching; Teachers with Culturally Relevant Practices Have High Self
  • Esteem and a High Regard for Others.
  • Teachers with Culturally Relevant Practices See Themselves as Part of the Community, See Teaching as Giving Back to the Community, and Encourage Their Students to Do the SameTeachers with Culturally Relevant Practices See Teachingas an Art and Themselves as Artists; Teachers with Culturally Relevant Practices Believe that All Students Can Succeed; Teachers with Culturally Relevant Practices Help Students Make Connections Between Their Community, National, and Global Identities; Teachers with Culturally Relevant Practices See Teaching as " Digging Knowledge Out " of Students; 4 We Are Family.
  • We're All in This TogetherThe Teacher
  • Student Relationship in the Culturally Relevant Classroom Is Fluid and " Humanely Equitable "; Culturally Relevant Teaching Involves Cultivation of the Relationship Beyond the Boundaries of the Classroom; Teachers with Culturally Relevant Practices Are Careful to Demonstrate a Connectedness with Each of Their Students; Teachers with Culturally Relevant Practices Encourage a Community of Learners; Culturally Relevant Teaching Encourages Students to Learn Collaboratively and Expects Them to Teach Each Other and Take Responsibility for Each Other.
  • Concluding Thoughts5 The Tree of Knowledge; Culturally Relevant Conceptions of Knowledge; Culturally Relevant Teaching Views Knowledge as Something That Is Continuously Re
  • created, Recycled, and Shared; Culturally Relevant Teaching Views Knowledge Critically; Culturally Relevant Teaching Is Passionate About Knowledge; Culturally Relevant Teaching Helps Students Develop Necessary Skills; Finally, Culturally Relevant Teaching Sees Excellence as a Complex Standard That Takes Student Diversity and Individual Differences into Account; Concluding Thoughts; 6 Culturally Relevant Teaching.
  • The Focus on LiteracyAnn Lewis: A Literacy Revival; Julia Devereaux: " Gimme That Old
  • Time [Religion] Teaching "; Lewis Versus Devereaux; Math in a Culturally Relevant Classroom; Telling Isn't Teaching; 7 Making Dreams into Reality; The Classroom Teacher's Power and Responsibility; Motivating Teachers; Changing Teaching Practices; A Vision of a Culturally Relevant School; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX A: METHODOLOGY; APPENDIX B: CONTEXT; NOTES; INDEX; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; Advert.