Becoming Multicultural Educators: Personal Journey Toward Professional Agency

ISBN-13: 9780787965143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 368 str.

Geneva Gay

Opis

To help both new and seasoned teachers to become more effective with their students from diverse backgrounds, Becoming Multicultural Educators edited by Geneva Gay, offers fourteen compelling stories from different regions, cultures, ethnic groups, and stages of professional and personal growth in developing multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. One contributing author declares community participation and social activism are the keys to his professional growth. For another, multicultural understanding comes when she learns to unveil the masks of insidious negative stereotypes. Through these stories, we share their struggles as these educators come to understand diversity among ethnic groups and cultures, resolve conflicts between curricular and multicultural goals, and find authentic models and mentors for their students. But most important, we learn how this laudatory group of educators has come to realize that they need to know themselves if they are to truly know their students. Well-grounded in education theory, Becoming Multicultural Educators is both personal and inspiring. This is the book that will help teachers, and those who prepare them, blossom as educators and human beings.

Spis treści

Preface.

The Authors.

1. Introduction: Planting Seeds to Harvest Fruits (Geneva Gay).

2. We Make the Road by Walking (John Ambrosio).

3. Crystallizing My Multicultural Education Core (Carolyn W. Jackson).

4. Conversations with Transformative Encounters (Audra L. Gray).

5. Making and Breaking Ethnic Masks (Jeannine E. Dingus).

6. Steppin Up and Representin (Kipchoge N. Kirkland).

7. Clearing Pathways for Children to Go Forth (S. Purcell Woodard).

8. Professional Actions Echo Personal Experiences (Chia–lin Huang).

9. Unifying Mind and Soul Through Cultural Knowledge and Self–Education (Patricia Espiritu Halagao).

10 Hanging Out with Ethnic Others (Mei–ying Chen).

11 Footsteps in the Dancing Zone (Mary Stone Hanley).

12 From Color Blindness to Cultural Vision (Laura Kay Neuwirth).

13 Navigating Marginality: Searching for My Own Truth (Yukari Takimoto Amos).

14 Teaching Them Through Who They Are (Terri L. Hackett).

Index.

O autorze

Geneva Gay is professor of education at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is nationally and internationally known for her scholarship in multicultural education. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including Culturally Responsive Teaching, which received the 2001 Outstanding Writing Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).

Blurb

Becoming Multicultural Educators offers teachers no matter what subject they teach or their level of expertise a unique resource for learning to become teachers who can work with students from a variety of ethnic, cultural, and social backgrounds. Through the lens of fourteen stories from teachers from different regions, cultures, and stages in life, this book reveals their unique challenges to grow personally as a requisite of multicultural teaching. These wonderful stories will inspire teachers to become more reflective and critically conscious about their own multicultural beliefs, experiences, and behaviors, and to develop their own personal and professional competence and confidence in multicultural education.