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The light in their eyes

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Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2010 - Education - 256 pages
In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, Nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environmentour 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. This updated edition of The Light in Their Eyes focuses on the significant role of teachers in transforming students lives. It considers recent theories, policies, and practices about the variability in student learning and culturally responsive pedagogy and examines the importance of student and teacher voice in research and practice. It also provides an update, in their own words, on former students whose journal entries were included in the first edition.

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Review: The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities

User Review  - Rachel - Goodreads

I wouldn't say I agreed with Nieto on a lot of things she writes, but this book provided me with an introduction to some of Paulo Freire's ideas--of humanizing pedagogy and education as a mode of demonstrating compassion to the oppressed. Read full review

Review: The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities

User Review  - Erin Reilly-Sanders - Goodreads

Some stuff I wrote for a class: Sonia Nieto takes readers through a very clearly communicated rationale for multiculturalism and suggestions for implementation that it both easy to read and convincing ... Read full review

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About the author (2010)

Sonia Nietois Professor Emerita at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of the bestselling books Why We Teach and What Keeps Teachers Going?

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