Download or read book Chronicles of Diversity Identity and Change in Home school Relations written by Janice Kroeger and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Family Diversity and Home School Relations written by Gianna Knowles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can adults in Early Years settings and primary schools fully embrace the diverse nature of family life of the children they are working with? This essential text will help students and those already working with children to understand both theoretically and practically, what may constitute a ‘family’. It explores how to build relationships with a child’s family to ensure early years settings and schools are working in partnership with children’s home environments, thereby supporting the best possible learning outcomes for children. It will help the reader to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding of their professional practice in education, and chapter by chapter explores the challenges that may be experienced in working with the diverse nature of family life in the UK, including: mixed race families immigrant, refugee and asylum seeker families step-families and step-parenting gay and lesbian families families and adoption fostering and children in care families living in poverty families and bereavement families and disability (including mental health). Understanding Family Diversity and Home-School Relations is engagingly practical, using case study examples throughout, and providing reflective activities to help the reader consider how to develop their practice in relation to the insights this book provides. It is a unique road-map to understanding pupils’ backgrounds, attitudes and culture and will be essential reading for any student undertaking relevant Foundation and BA Degrees, including those in initial teacher training, taking post-graduate qualifications or as part of a practitioner’s professional development.
Download or read book Home School and Community Collaboration written by Kathy B. Grant and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home, School, and Community Collaboration uses the culturally responsive family support model as a framework to prepare teachers to work effectively with children from diverse families. Authors Kathy B. Grant and Julie A. Ray skillfully incorporate numerous real-life vignettes and case studies to show readers the practical application of culturally responsive family engagement. The Fourth Edition contains additional content that enhances the already relevant text, including: a new section titled “Perspectives on Poverty” acknowledging the deep levels of poverty in the United States and the impact on family-school relations; increased coverage of Latino/Latina family connections; and updated demographics focusing on the issues impacting same-sex families, families experiencing divorce, children and family members with chronic illnesses, military families, and grandparents raising children. With contributions from more than 22 experts in the field offering a wide range of perspectives, this book will help readers understand, appreciate, and support diverse families.
Download or read book Composing Diverse Identities written by D. Jean Clandinin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a climate of increasing emphasis on testing, measurable outcomes, competition and efficiency, the real lives of children and their teachers are often neglected or are too messy and intricate to legislate and quantify. As such, curricula are designed without including the very people that compose the identities of schools. Here Clandinin takes issue with this tendency, bringing together a collection of narratives from seven writers who spent a year in an urban school, exploring the experiences and contributions of children, families, teachers and administrators. These stories show us an alternative way of attending to what counts in schools, shifting away from the school as a business model towards an idea of schools as places to engage citizenship and to attend to the wholeness of people’s lives. Articulating the complex ethical dilemmas and issues that face people and schools every day, this fascinating study puts school life under the microscope raises new questions about who and what education is for.
Download or read book The Chronicles of COOP de Ville written by Dr Ken Coopwood Phd and published by Cpwd, LLC. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the motion picture, Short Circuit, Tri Star Pictures, 1986, the CPWD Identity Awareness Series is an expanding series of insightful tales focused on navigating the critical years of youth development throughout Jr. High and early high school. Each book in The Chronicles of Coop-de-Ville engages the reader in pieces of a young person's identity development and sparks lively post-reading discussions about lessons in diversity, morality and life. Book three; Label Me Not pulls the class together through all types of interpersonal relationships faced by youth in a fun packed trip to Mexico! Ken and Greg finally make it to the last field trip of the school year and lessons are sure to be learned as they leave the country expecting everything to be different. The kids' direct and often funny look at multiculturalism takes the group from bus to train to unexpected lessons that will last a lifetime! With many twists and turns along the way to Mexico and afterwards, a host of lessons and discussions are sure to follow this especially relevant edition of the CPWD Identity Awareness Series written with every youth identity in mind! CPWD youth development books are a collection of stories identified by individual series targeting major social and behavioral development issues that can hopelessly separate youth from a rightful place in the hearts of adults and mentors. Each series is dedicated to matters of Identity Awareness, Diversity Education, Peer Pressure, Relationships, Self-Esteem and Behavior and faith development. Youth from all over have benefited from the insight found in these CPWD stories which spark diversity and spiritual dialogues of all types. Here's one of many testimonies about the CPWD Identity Awareness Series... "You address youth identity, but you also get to the very essence of what multiculturalism ought to be. Moreover, you do it in a most engaging and thought-provoking way. My deepest congratulations!" - Carlos Cortes, Senior Consultant; Dora the Explorer, Nickelodeon
Download or read book The Chronicles of COOP de Ville written by Dr Ken Coopwood Phd and published by Cpwd, LLC. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the motion picture, Short Circuit, Tri Star Pictures, 1986, the CPWD Identity Awareness Series is an expanding series of insightful tales focused on navigating the critical years of youth development throughout Jr. High and early high school. Each book in The Chronicles of Coop-de-Ville engages the reader in pieces of a young person's identity development and sparks lively post-reading discussions about lessons in diversity, morality and life. CPWD youth development books are a collection of stories identified by individual series targeting major social and behavioral development issues that can hopelessly separate youth from a rightful place in the hearts of adults and mentors. Each series is dedicated to matters of Identity Awareness, Diversity Education, Peer Pressure, Relationships, Self-Esteem and Behavior and faith development. Youth from all over have benefited from the insight found in these CPWD stories which spark diversity and spiritual dialogues of all types. Here's one of many testimonies about the CPWD Identity Awareness Series... Volume I is the bundle book featuring all stories in the CPWD Identity Awareness Series to date! "You address youth identity, but you also get to the very essence of what multiculturalism ought to be. Moreover, you do it in a most engaging and thought-provoking way. My deepest congratulations!" - Carlos Cortes, Senior Consultant; Dora the Explorer, Nickelodeon
Download or read book The Chronicles of COOP de Ville written by Dr Ken Coopwood Phd and published by Cpwd, LLC. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the motion picture, Short Circuit, Tri Star Pictures, 1986, the CPWD Identity Awareness Series is an expanding series of insightful tales focused on navigating the critical years of youth development throughout Jr. High and early high school. Each book in The Chronicles of Coop-de-Ville engages the reader in pieces of a young person's identity development and sparks lively post-reading discussions about lessons in diversity, morality and life. Book two; Friends or Benefits presents a heart-warming lesson about awareness of youth with disabilities. Ken and Greg, Jr's. friendship is tested after Ken enjoys the reputation he has always wanted at his school at the expense of Theodore, III (Trey), a speech impaired boy looking for real friends. With the help of older friends like Daebreon and Greg, Trey is saved from Ken and the spoils of popularity as a tale of friendship and understanding comes full circle! Youth are sure to find out how wanting to being popular too badly can cause some really uncool things to happen. Never forget how things used to be! Friends or Benefits tells us why in a delightful tale of the making of real friends despite disabilities! CPWD youth development books are a collection of stories identified by individual series targeting major social and behavioral development issues that can hopelessly separate youth from a rightful place in the hearts of adults and mentors. Each series is dedicated to matters of Identity Awareness, Diversity Education, Peer Pressure, Relationships, Self-Esteem and Behavior and faith development. Youth from all over have benefited from the insight found in these CPWD stories which spark diversity and spiritual dialogues of all types. Here's one of many testimonies about the CPWD Identity Awareness Series... "You address youth identity, but you also get to the very essence of what multiculturalism ought to be. Moreover, you do it in a most engaging and thought-provoking way. My deepest congratulations!" - Carlos Cortes, Senior Consultant; Dora the Explorer, Nickelodeon
Download or read book Other People s Children written by Lisa D. Delpit and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the award-winning analysis of the role of race in the classroom features a new author introduction and framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne, in an account that shares ideas about how teachers can function as "cultural transmitters" in contemporary schools and communicate more effectively to overcome race-related academic challenges. Original.
Download or read book Teaching to Change the World written by Jeannie Oakes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, multicultural introduction to education and teaching and the challenges and opportunities they present. Together, the four authors bring a rich blend of theory and practical application to this groundbreaking text. Jeannie Oakes is a leading education researcher and former director of the UCLA teacher education program. Martin Lipton is an education writer and consultant and has taught in public schools for 31 years. Lauren Anderson and Jamy Stillman are former public school teachers, now working as teacher educators. This unique, comprehensive foundational text considers the values and politics that pervade the U.S. education system, explains the roots of conventional thinking about schooling and teaching, asks critical questions about how issues of power and privilege have shaped and continue to shape educational opportunity, and presents powerful examples of real teachers working for equity and justice. Taking the position that a hopeful, democratic future depends on ensuring that all students learn, the text pays particular attention to inequalities associated with race, social class, language, gender, and other social categories and explores teachers role in addressing them. The text provides a research-based and practical treatment of essential topics, and it situates those topics in relation to democratic values; issues of diversity; and cognitive, sociocultural, and constructivist perspectives on learning. The text shows how knowledge of education foundations and history can help teachers understand the organization of today s schools, the content of contemporary curriculum, and the methods of modern teaching. It likewise shows how teachers can use such knowledge when thinking about and responding to headline issues like charter schools, vouchers, standards, testing, and bilingual education, to name just a few. Central to this text is a belief that schools can and must be places of extraordinary educational quality and institutions in the service of social justice. Thus, the authors address head-on tensions between principles of democratic schooling and competition for always-scarce high-quality opportunities. Woven through the text are the voices of a diverse group of teachers, who share their analyses and personal anecdotes concerning what teaching to change the world means and involves. Click Here for Book Website Pedagogical Features: Digging Deeper sections referenced at the end of each chapter and featured online include supplementary readings and resources from scholars and practitioners who are addressing issues raised in the text. Instructor s Manual offers insights about how to teach course content in ways that are consistent with cognitive and sociocultural learning theories, culturally diverse pedagogy, and authentic assessment.New to this Edition: "
Download or read book Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research written by John C. Smart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on twelve general areas that encompass the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trouble with Diversity written by Walter Benn Michaels and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of the American obsession with diversity argues that we are ignoring the ever-widening economic divide in American society, that diversity has created a false notion of social justice, and that we need to emphasize equality over diversity.
Download or read book In Search of Deeper Learning written by Jal Mehta and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read."--Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is working--and what isn't--in our schools. What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's most innovative schools and classrooms--places where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity. This boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be. The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American education--one that will set the agenda for schools of the future.
Download or read book Broke written by Laura T. Hamilton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in recent decades as historically underrepresented students have gained greater access, and now less prestigious public universities face major economic challenges. In Broke, Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen examine virtually all aspects of campus life to show how the new economic order in public universities, particularly at two campuses in the renowned University of California system, affects students. For most of the twentieth century, they show, less affluent families of color paid with their taxes for wealthy white students to attend universities where their own offspring were not welcome. That changed as a subset of public research universities, some quite old, opted for a “new” approach, making racially and economically marginalized youth the lifeblood of the university. These new universities, however, have been particularly hard hit by austerity. To survive, they’ve had to adapt, finding new ways to secure funding and trim costs—but ultimately it’s their students who pay the price, in decreased services and inadequate infrastructure. ? The rise of new universities is a reminder that a world-class education for all is possible. Broke shows us how far we are from that ideal and sets out a path for how we could get there.
Download or read book Readings for Diversity and Social Justice written by Maurianne Adams and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays include writings from Cornel West, Michael Omi, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua and Michelle Fine. The essays address the multiplicity and scope of oppressions ranging from ableism to racism and other less-well known social aberrations.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book More Mirrors in the Classroom written by Jane Fleming and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 30% of all public school children attend school in large or mid-size cities, totaling more than 16 million students in 22,000 schools. For schools serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations and large numbers of children living in poverty, a significant achievement gap persists. Proponents of multicultural education often advocate for instruction with culturally relevant texts to promote inclusion, compassion, and understanding of our increasingly diverse society. Less discussion has focused on the significant body of research that suggests that culturally relevant texts have important effects on language and literacy development. By “connecting the dots” of existing research, More Mirrors in the Classroom raises awareness about the critical role that urban children's literature can play in helping children learn to read and write. In addition, it provides practical step-by-step advice for increasing the cultural relevance of school curricula in order to accelerate literacy learning.
