Learning to Teach for Social Justice

In this skillfully crafted and engaging book, a group of student teachers -- led by Linda Darling-Hammond -- share their candid questions, concerns, dilemmas, and lessons learned about how to teach for social justice and social change. This text provides powerful examples of how Darling-Hammond and her students thoughtfully integrated diversity within a teacher education program -- an excellent model for educators who are seeking ways to transform their teacher education programs to better prepare teachers to work effectively in multicultural classrooms.

The honest reflections, case studies, lessons, and projects described offer valuable tools to help teachers:

-- Engage in productive dialogues about both the inequities and the possibilities for social reconstruction within the communities where they will be teaching.

-- Apply the concepts they are learning in a university classroom to teaching for social justice in their own classrooms.

-- Find ways to use their insights about diversity to intervene on behalf of victimized and marginalized students.

Series Foreword
Preface: We Wish We Could Teach Like Our Eyes Can See
Learning to Teach for Social Justice	p. 1
What Is Diversity?	p. 9
What Is Diversity?	p. 13
Acknowledging Diversity in the Classroom	p. 18
Swimming Against the Mainstream: Examining Cultural Assumptions in the Classroom	p. 22
From the Margins to the Center: Reconstructing the Canon in Social Studies Curriculum	p. 30
Does Who We Are Influence How We Teach?	p. 39
Survey Says ...: Can White Teachers Effectively Teach Students of Color?	p. 43
Finding Myself in My Students: A Step Toward Transforming Social Dynamics in the Classroom	p. 52
Idealism Meets Reality	p. 59
The Big Lesson	p. 66
Watching Words and Managing Multiple Identities	p. 71
Whose Rally Comes First?	p. 79
Who Are Our Students and What Do They Need?	p. 89
Depending on Success	p. 93
"I Ain't Doin' That": Why "Doing Good in School" Can Be So Hard	p. 103
Navigating a New World: The Development of an Immigrant Student in an American Middle School	p. 116
Drop Out or Push Out? Succeeding in Spite of the System	p. 128
Beyond Cultural Relevance	p. 139
What Is the Problem and What Can We Do About It?	p. 149
Finding the Right Track	p. 153
To Track or Not to Track: That It Still a Question	p. 163
Unity and Division: Working Through the Issues of Equity in School Reform	p. 171
Checking In: Bridging Differences by Building Community	p. 184
Wanted: Teachers with Conciencia	p. 192
Educating a Profession for Equitable Practice	p. 201
References	p. 213
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 217
Index	p. 221
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