Speaking the unpleasant : the politics of (non)engagement in the multicultural education terrain / edited by Rudolfo Chávez Chávez, James O'Donnell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chávez, Rudolfo Chávez, 1951-

O'Donnell, James, 1951-

Series:

SUNY series, social context of education

SUNY series, the social context of education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Multiculturalism--Study and teaching (Higher).

Multiculturalism.

United States.

Multiculturalism--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Educational anthropology--United States.

Educational anthropology.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 338 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1998]

Contents:

Foreword: Tongue-Tying Multiculturalism / Donaldo Macedo xv

Introduction: Speaking the Unpleasant 1

1. Engaging the Multicultural Education Terrain: A Holographic Montage for Engagers / Rudolfo Chavez Chavez 6

2. From Claiming Hegemony to Sharing Space: Creating Community in Multicultural Courses / Sonia Nieto 16

3. Mediating Curriculum: Problems of Nonengagement and Practices of Engagement / Beverly Cross 32

4. Engaging Students' Re-Cognition of Racial Identity / James O'Donnell 56

5. Toward a Just Society: Recalibrating Multicultural Teachers / Lynne T. Diaz-Rico 69

6. Fostering Engagement: Barriers in Teacher Education / Gaile S. Cannella 87

7. Confessions of a Methods Fetishist: Or, the Cultural Politics of Reflective Nonengagement / Mark Dressman 108

8. Upstream in the Mainstream: Pedagogy against the Current / Robert E. Bahruth, Stanley F. Steiner 127

9. Engaging Special Education Practitioners with Language and Culture: Pitfalls and Challenges / Jozi De Leon, Catherine Medina, Robert Ortiz 148

10. Exploring the Use of History in Multicultural/Multilingual Teacher Education / Kip Tellez, Sharon O'Malley 164

11. The Struggle for Cultural Self: "From Numb to Dumb" / Susan M. Rumann 186

12. Challenging Privilege: White Male Middle-Class Opposition in the Multicultural Education Terrain / Robert Smith 197

13. Moving Off Center: Engaging White Education Students in Multicultural Field Experiences / Carolyn R. O'Grady 211

14. Identity and Engagement in Multicultural Education / Betsy J. Cahill, Eve M. Adams 229

15. Lowering the Shields: Reducing Defensiveness in Multicultural Education / Diane J. Goodman 247

16. (E)strange(d) Relations: Psychological Concepts in Multicultural Education / Nancy Lesko 265

17. Teaching Within/Against the Backlash: A Group Dialogue about Power and Pedagogy in the 1990s / Gary L. Anderson, Mary Bentley, Bernardo Gallegos, Kathryn Herr, Elizabeth Saavedra 274.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791437574

0791437582

OCLC:

37917392