Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice

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ISBN: 9780415877107 | 0415877105
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Copyright: 4/6/2010

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This important new book provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to the oppressive theory of deficit thinking in education.

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List of Figures and Tables	p. viii
Series Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
The Construct of Deficit Thinking	p. 1
Neohereditarianism: Pseudoscientific Explanations for Racial Differences in Intelligence	p. 19
Ruby Payne's Mindsets of Poverty, Middle Class, and Wealth: A Resurrection of the Culture of Poverty Concept	p. 68
At-Risk Students or At-Risk Schools?	p. 101
Deconstructing Deficit Thinking: Practical Solutions for Teacher Educators, Educational Leaders, and Educational Ethnographers	p. 126
Conclusion: (A) The Bankruptcy of the Standards-Based School Reform Movement; (B) Toward the Construction of Meaningful School Reform: Democratic Education	p. 148
Notes	p. 159
References	p. 183
Index	p. 215
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Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice

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