Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)
Nieto's work would make a good textbook for teacher preparation, or a book for study groups of educators to use to examine their own practice. It would also have value for individual teachers who wish to reexamine their own stand on multiculturalism and how they practice it in their classrooms.—TESL-EJ...this text offers a critical perspective from which to engage teachers in examining cultural and linguistic differences. Nieto provides the reader with a hopeful and critical examination of ways that teachers can change classroom practices and school politics to better serve all students. She refers to the role of teachers as never neutral but rather as a political project, either for or against those whom they teach. Her book encourages readers to question their beliefs and the attitudes of their students--in order that we can all learn how to meet the needs of students in a changing world.—Childhood EducationNieto's gracefully written book is designed mainly for pre- and in-service teachers, who are mostly white women from working and lower-middle class backgrounds with little experience with racial minorities...Nieto's book will prove an extremely useful resource for anyone dedicated to teaching all students.—British Journal of Educational Psychology...offers constructive ideas regarding the nature of changes needed in teacher education in order to meet the challenges of linguistic and cultural diversity of students....Designed to be used as a textbook reflecting the emphases Nieto believes are needed in the education of teachers at the beginning of the 21st century, the text contains several directions for this education....She presents an amazing array of statistics to show the ever-increasing diversity of students.—Educational ResearcherThe thought-provoking and interesting reading materials, together with the supplements, make the book very useable in a classroom environment.This book is definitely a good training tool for both in-service and preservice teachers to equip them for our schools and a good learning tool for professional teachers in the field.—Studies in Second Language Aquisition