Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. This volume is a testament ...to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "story of courage, hardship, perseverance, and unyielding belief in the power of love." In this comprehensive collection, prominent intellectuals including Noam Chomsky and Donald Macedo reflect on Freire's "politics of liberation" and add important new dimensions to the revolutionary, innovative ideas that Freire bequeathed to a generation much in need.
Children's literature reflecting authentic multiethnic cultures can help young minds recognize the diversity of their families and communities. Books that allow children to see themselves in a ...positive role give them an opportunity to affirm their identities. Children and youth also need books that show the interaction of people of diverse cultures, their ways of encountering and solving conflicts, their ways of developing respect for each other, and their ways of creating solidarity. This guide contains more than 800 titles (single volume or series) in annotated bibliographies and creates an excellent starting point for building a multicultural book collection. It is organized by broad subject and then again by book type (picture books, fiction, nonfiction). The guide offers complete author and title indexes and more than 100 interdisciplinary application strategies ranging from reading aloud with follow-up discussions to social activism. Following a foreword, an introduction, and a how-to-use-this-book section, the guide is divided into these parts: (1) "Ties That Bind: Celebrating Life around the World"; (2) "Refugees and Homeless: Nomads of the World"; (3) "Navigating the Road to Literacy"; (4) "Books That Bring People Together"; and (5) "Multicultural Books in a Series." Contains several resource lists. (BT)
Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. This volume is a testament ...to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "story of courage, hardship, perseverance, and unyielding belief in the power of love." In this comprehensive collection, prominent intellectuals including Noam Chomsky and Donald Macedo reflect on Freire's "politics of liberation" and add important new dimensions to the revolutionary, innovative ideas that Freire bequeathed to a generation much in need.
This book contains 15 chapters, each by different authors, commenting and expanding on the educational philosophy and work of Paulo Freire. The following are included: "Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of ...Possibility" (Peter McLaren); "Studying the Media: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" (Noam Chomsky); "Scientism as a Form of Racism" (Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo); "Liberating the Critical in Critical Theory: Marcuse, Marx, and a Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Alienation, Art, and the Humanities" (Charles Reitz); "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in the Global Age" (Henry Giroux); "On 'Having Differences' and 'Being Different': From a Dialogue of Difference to the Private Language of Indifference" (George David Miller, Mark Roelof Eleveld); "Politics of Explanation: Ethical Questions in the Production of Knowledge" (Thomas Heaney); "Upstream in the Mainstream: Pedagogy against the Current" (Robert Bahruth, Stanley Steiner); "The Prairie Is Wide: Conrack Comes to 'The Rez'" (David Gabbard); "Teaching in Our Underwear: The Liabilities of Whiteness in the Multiracial Classroom" (Maryann Dickar); "Authority Is Not a Luxury: 'Courageous Dialogue' in the Feminist Classroom" (Kimberly Kay Gunter); "Authentic Multiculturalism and Nontraditional Students: Voices from the 'Contact Zone'" (Juan Flores); "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action: The Ideologies of Gender and Peer Response Sessions Perceived by a Teacher-Researcher" (Nancie Burns-McCoy); "Cultural Studies (Alone) Won't Do It: Strategic Reform of Academic Departments in the University" (Scott Shepard); and "Synthesizing Gramsci and Freire: Possibilities for a Theory of Transformative Adult Education" (Peter Mayo). The chapters include reference lists, and the book is indexed. (KC)
Provides examples of children's literature that can be used to begin dialogs on issues of similarities, differences, prejudice, exclusion and inclusion, violence, and social justice. Picture books ...chosen for broad appeal and multiple uses, even with older students, are described. (SLD)
Contends that effective use of time is critical in today's elementary classroom. Describes a curriculum development process in which 75 preservice elementary teachers created an integrated geography, ...language arts, and arts curriculum. Maintains that the approach could be used at all levels to teach about geographic features. (CFR)
Stanley Steiner recalls meeting up with a former student of his with whom he shared books. The two and several of her classmates had developed leisure reading habits that strengthened their ...friendships.
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