Ursula Thomas

Culture or Chaos in the Village (eBook, ePUB)

The Journey to Cultural Fluency

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Culture or Chaos in the Village: The Journey to Cultural Fluency seeks to provide a framework for examination of the factors that influence mediation of culture in the minds of teachers. The text moves in a manner that sets the tone for a courageous conversation. It is the intent of this book to facilitate a focused conversation, discussing the factors of race, class, and gender in conjunction with personal and professional belief systems of educators, preservice and inservice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781607099260
• Artikelnr.: 39485241

Autorenporträt

Ursula Thomas is assistant professor of early childhood education and Birth through Age Five program coordinator at the University of West Georgia. Her research agenda includes issues of cultural mediation and its effects on instructional choices, the power of teacher educator research on diversity in the classroom, views of social justice in the early childhood classroom, and preservice teachers' disposition on professionalism and diversity in teacher preparation programs.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Racial Identity Development: You are Here!
Chapter 2: Mediation framework and teacher education dynamics
Chapter 3: Brown Girl in the Ring
Chapter 4: The Three R's: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic or Race,
Relationship, and Reflection
Chapter 5: But They Don't Speak English: Mapping Out How We Teach
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
Chapter 6: The State of School-Based Speech-Language Pathology in Teacher
Education:Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Chapter 7: Lead, Follow of Get out of the Way: Cultural Mediation, Social
Justice and Educational Leadership
Chapter 8: Are We There Yet? Culture, Communication and Relationship:
Making it to the Village
Chapter 9: The Family Reunion: Community and the Journey
Chapter 10: Pardon the Policy: Unpacking the Standards