Rethinking Multicultural Education : Case Studies in Cultural Transition / edited by Carol Korn-Bursztyn, Alberto M. Bursztyn Ph.D.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bursztyn, Alberto M., editor.

Korn-Bursztyn, Carol, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home and school.

Multicultural education--United States--Case studies.

Multicultural education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Korn and Bursztyn and their contributors examine the cultural transitions that children make as they move between the cultures of home and school. To better understand these transitions, they explore how educators understand their students' shifting experiences and examine how educators also negotiate transitions as they too move from home to school each day. The narratives or case studies reflect this shifting gaze: from child, to teacher, to parents, and take up the various relational configurations that these can form, amongst and between each other. They turn a critical eye toward instances of classroom practice and school life, connecting personal knowledge with school change. In some cases, the authors draw directly on autobiographical material, linking these to a reflective approach to teaching. Avoiding the celebratory tone that often attends discussions of multiculturalism, the authors address how diverstiy engages us in continual renegotiation of the personal and social. The perspectives of educators and of teacher candidates are presented, and the construction of cultural identity and its impact on schools, explored. In illuminating the complicated nature of cultural transitions and the obligation of schools to create places in which children and families of diverse backgrounds can thrive, they highlight how multiculturalism can play a transformative role in the lives of children and schools. A must reading for educators and graduate students in education, school psychology, guidance and counseling.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword: Exploring a Transformative Multiculturalism Justice in a Zeitgeist of Despair; Preface; Introduction: Cultural Transitions and Curricular Transformations; 1 Silenced Voices: Case of Racial and Cultural Intolerance in the Schools; 2 Redefining School Culture: Creating New Traditions for Bicultural Students; 3 Issues of Class and Race in Education: Personal Narrative; 4 Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge: The Geography of Social and Cultural Transitions; 5 An Ecological Perspective on Preparing Teachers for Multicultural Classrooms

6 Facing the Terror Within: Exploring the Personal in Multicultural Education 7 Transforming the Dekcit Narrative: Race, Class, and Social Capital in Parenty School Relations; 8 The Path to Academic Disability: Javier's School Experience; Conclusion: Reflections on Collective Identities; Further Readings; Index; About the Editors and Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-199) and index.

ISBN:

9798216008224

9780313076824

0313076820

OCLC:

55734537