List Books » The Routledgefalmer Reader in Multicultural Education: Critical Perspectives on Race, Racism and Education
Authors: Ladson-Billings, Gloria Ladson-Billings, David Gillborn
ISBN-13: 9780415336635, ISBN-10: 0415336635
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
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 Reader is divided into four sections, covering the ideas that are at the core of contemporary multicultural education; theories, identities, practices and methods. The first section covers some basic conceptual territory and discusses key ideas including 'race', 'multiculturalism' and 'anti-racism'. The second section draws together writing that focuses explicitly on the question of identities, examining the meaning of 'race'. In the third part, the articles look at life inside multi-racial classrooms and consider how racialised and racist processes operate on a day-to-day level. Finally, the fourth section addresses different aspects of educational research.
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.
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | On the theoretical status of the concept of race | 7 |
2 | Race, knowledge construction, and education in the USA : lessons from history | 16 |
3 | Anti-racism : from policy to praxis | 35 |
4 | Just what is critical race theory and what's it doing in a nice field like education? | 49 |
5 | Dysconscious racism : ideology, identity, and the miseducation of teachers | 71 |
6 | Identity traps on how Black students fail : the interactions between biographical, sub-cultural and learner identities | 84 |
7 | Loose canons : exploding the myth of the 'black macho' lad | 103 |
8 | The souls of white folk : critical pedagogy, whiteness studies, and globalization discourse | 117 |
9 | Good, bad and normal teachers : the experiences of South Asian children | 139 |
10 | How white teachers construct race | 163 |
11 | Critical multicultural education and student's perspectives | 179 |
12 | Black women in education : a collective movement for social change | 201 |
13 | Between neo and post : critique and transformation in critical educational studies | 211 |
14 | The silenced dialogue : power and pedagogy in educating other people's children | 225 |
15 | The myth of neutrality in educational research | 243 |
16 | The power to know one thing is never the power to know all things : methodological notes on two studies of Black American teachers | 252 |