The dreamkeepers : successful teachers of African American children / Gloria Ladson-Billings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ladson-Billings, Gloria, 1947-

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education.

African Americans.

Teaching.

Educational anthropology--United States.

Educational anthropology.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 225 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2009]

Summary:

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 of race, gender, or teaching style. What matters most is a teacher's efforts to work with the unique strengths a child brings to the classroom. A brilliant mixture of scholarship and storytelling, The Dreamkeepers challenges us to envision intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant classrooms that have the power to improve the lives of not just African American students, but all children. This new edition also includes questions for reflection.

Contents:

1 A Dream Deferred 1

2 Does Culture Matter? 17

3 Seeing Color, Seeing Culture 33

4 We Are Family 59

5 The Tree of Knowledge 85

6 Culturally Relevant Teaching 111

7 Making Dreams into Reality 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780470408155

0470408154

OCLC:

255894561