The light in their eyes
Subtitle: creating multicultural learning communities
By: Sonia Nieto
Edition: 10th anniversary ed.
Series: Multicultural education series; Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807750544
Description: Reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools and addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environment--our increasing diversity, the altering conditions in schools and in society, the influence of poverty on learning, and the impact of NCLB on classrooms and schools.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Learning, the social context, and multicultural education --; title: Learning and inequality --; title: Culture and learning --; title: Who does the accommodating? Institutional transformation to promote learning --; title: Critical pedagogy, empowerment, and learning -- -- The; title: personal and collective transformation of teachers --; title: Creating learning communities : implications for multicultural education.