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The Routledgefalmer Reader in Multicultural Education: Critical Perspectives on Race, Racism and Education » (1st Edition)

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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

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Author Biography: Ladson-Billings

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction1
1On the theoretical status of the concept of race7
2Race, knowledge construction, and education in the USA : lessons from history16
3Anti-racism : from policy to praxis35
4Just what is critical race theory and what's it doing in a nice field like education?49
5Dysconscious racism : ideology, identity, and the miseducation of teachers71
6Identity traps on how Black students fail : the interactions between biographical, sub-cultural and learner identities84
7Loose canons : exploding the myth of the 'black macho' lad103
8The souls of white folk : critical pedagogy, whiteness studies, and globalization discourse117
9Good, bad and normal teachers : the experiences of South Asian children139
10How white teachers construct race163
11Critical multicultural education and student's perspectives179
12Black women in education : a collective movement for social change201
13Between neo and post : critique and transformation in critical educational studies211
14The silenced dialogue : power and pedagogy in educating other people's children225
15The myth of neutrality in educational research243
16The power to know one thing is never the power to know all things : methodological notes on two studies of Black American teachers252

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