Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the ClassroomVirginia Lea, Judy Helfand As educators, how do we challenge and interrupt the social construction of whiteness in ourselves, in the classroom, in schools, and in the wider society? Coming from diverse backgrounds, the contributors in this volume draw on their own well-examined experiences of race, racism, and whiteness in developing effective antiracist pedagogies and classroom activities that interrupt and contest whiteness. They have explored their own lives from the selective position of their own memories and have traced the ways in which their assumptions - which they use to mediate and interpret the world around them - have been constituted by public ideological forces. They have collaborated with others in building alternative pedagogies and support systems, enabling them to teach, and at the same time, reflect on the assumptions behind and the effects of their teaching. The result is the work collected here. |
Contents
Cultural Forms of Whiteness | 19 |
Crossing Cultural Borders through Authentic Assessment | 47 |
Challenging Eurocentric Classroom Norms Through | 68 |
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Integrationsprozesse von Kindern in multikulturellen Gesellschaften Karin Elinor Sauer Limited preview - 2007 |