The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Multicultural Education: Critical Perspectives on Race, Racism and Education

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

ISBN: 9780415336635 | 0415336635
Cover: Nonspecific Binding
Copyright: 8/24/2004

Buy New

Print on Demand: 2-4 Weeks. This item cannot be cancelled or returned.

$65.95

This unique publication brings together scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the central questions that shape the field of Multicultural Education. It offers the reader a great opportunity to achieve a real grasp of the subject, facilitating understanding and articulation of key debates, and making important topics, concepts, and theories accessible to a broad audience. The editors have assembled a collection of articles of immense scope and pertinence, making this an excellent must-buy resource book for undergraduates, postgraduates, education practitioners, academics, and anyone concerned with race equality and multicultural education.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

(4)

David Gillborn

Gloria Ladson-Billings

PART I Theories: making sense of race, racism and education

(64)

On the theoretical status of the concept of race

(9)

Michael Omi

Howard Winant

Introduction

(1)

Race as an ideological construct

(2)

Race as an objective condition

(1)

Toward a critical theory of the concept of race

(5)

Race, knowledge construction, and education in the USA: lessons from history

(19)

James A. Banks

The rise of nativism in the early 1900s

(1)

The construction of knowledge about race in the early 1900s

(1)

Nativism triumphs

(1)

Knowledge, power, and transformative knowledge

(1)

The intercultural and intergroup education movements

(1)

Research during the intergroup education era: 1940-54

(3)

The American civil rights movement

(2)

Research during the civil rights era

(1)

The loss of hope and the fading of the dream

(1)

The coexistence of conservative and progressive political forces in US society

(1)

Lessons from history: transformative knowledge and human freedom

(6)

Anti-racism: from policy to praxis

(14)

David Gillborn

Anti-racism and multiculturalism

(2)

Left critiques of municipal anti-racism

(2)

The failure of symbolic anti-racism: learning from Burnage

(2)

The critical revision of anti-racism

(2)

Opposing racism and staying `critical'

(5)

Just what is critical race theory and what's it doing in a nice field like education?

(20)

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Introduction

(2)

What is critical race theory?

(5)

Critical race theory and citizenship

(3)

Critical race theoretical approaches to education

(4)

Words of caution

(6)

PART II Identities: race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality

(68)

Dysconscious racism: ideology, identity, and the miseducation of teachers

(13)

Joyce E. King

Celebrating diversity

(2)

Discovering dysconscious racism

(1)

The findings

(2)

Discussion

(2)

The cultural politics of critiquing ideology and identity

(1)

Toward liberatory pedagogy in teacher education

(5)

Identity traps or how Black students fail: the interactions between biographical, sub-cultural and learner identities

(19)

Deborah Youdell

Introduction

(2)

Theory to practices

(1)

Constituting Black sub-cultural identities

(9)

Identity traps -- constituting Black learners

(4)

Conclusion

100

(3)

Loose canons: exploding the myth of the `black macho' lad

103

(14)

Tony Sewell

The conformists: the ultimate sacrifice or doing your own thing?

104

(3)

Innovators: learning to balance on the tightrope or a step too far for `mankind'

107

(2)

`Retreatism': an invisible resistance or glad to be unnoticed?

109

(1)

Rebels: phallocentric revenge or exploding black canons?

110

(4)

Conclusions

114

(3)

The souls of white folk: critical pedagogy, whiteness studies, and globalization discourse

117

(20)

Zeus Leonardo

Multinational whiteness: the hegemony of white images

120

(3)

Fragmentation of consciousness and global racism

123

(4)

Flexible whiteness and accommodation of the Other

127

(4)

Future directions in pedagogy, whiteness, and globalization studies

131

(6)

PART III Practices: life in school

137

(72)

Good, bad and normal teachers: the experiences of South Asian children

139

(24)

Ghazala Bhatti

Introduction

139

(1)

Asian children and their teachers

140

(7)

Racism and the teaching staff

147

(6)

Teachers and the gender effect

153

(3)

Teachers' alleged lower academic expectations of Asian children

156

(1)

Other experiences of education

157

(3)

The kinds of children teachers liked

160

(1)

Expectations and aspirations

161

(1)

Summary

161

(2)

How white teachers construct race

163

(16)

Christine E. Sleeter

Theoretical perspectives about racism

164

(1)

A study of teachers

165

(2)

Race = European ethnicity

167

(1)

Denying the salience of race

167

(3)

Using culture to ease the process of assimilation

170

(2)

Culture as symbolic of family and individual differences

172

(2)

Beginnings of analyses of white supremacist institutions

174

(1)

Conclusion

175

(4)

Critical multicultural education and students' perspectives

179

(22)

Sonia Nieto

The sociopolitical context of education

180

(1)

Research on students' perspectives

181

(2)

Case studies of educational success and failure

183

(9)

The case studies from a critical multicultural education perspective

192

(4)

Conclusion

196

(5)

Black women in education: a collective movement for social change

201

(8)

Heidi Safia Mirza

Evidence of collective educational urgency

202

(1)

Is black female educational urgency a new social movement?

203

(1)

Black women's activism: strategies for transformation

204

(2)

Conclusion

206

(3)

PART IV Methods: doing critical research

209

(2)

Between neo and post: critique and transformation in critical educational studies

211

(7)

Michael W. Apple

Memory and experience

218

(1)

Education and cheap french fries

219

(3)

Postscript

222

(3)

The silenced dialogue: power and pedagogy in educating other people's children

225

(18)

Lisa D. Delpit

The myth of neutrality in educational research

243

(1)

Maud Blair

Introduction

243

(1)

What do we mean by neutrality?

244

(2)

Racism: what is it and who decides?

246

(1)

Understanding ethnocentrism

246

(2)

Neutrality or white defensiveness?

248

(2)

Conclusion

250

(2)

The power to know one thing is never the power to know all things: methodological notes on two studies of Black American teachers

252

(2)

Michele Foster

Problem, theory, and method

254

(1)

Researcher as subject

255

(3)

The studies

258

(5)

The power to know

263

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Multicultural Education: Critical Perspectives on Race, Racism and Education

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials