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Summary:
- An updated edition of the award-winning analysis of the role of race in the classroom features a new author introduction and framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne, in an account that shares ideas about how teachers can function as cultural transmitters in contemporary schools and communicate more effectively to overcome race-related academic challenges.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Controversies revisited
- Skills and other dilemmas of a progressive black educator
- The silenced dialogue
- Language diversity and learning
- Part 2. Lessons from home and abroad
- The Vilis Tokples schools of Papua New Guinea
- 'Hello, Grandfather'
- Teachers' voices
- Part 3. Looking to the future
- Cross-cultural confusions in teacher assessment
- The politics of teaching literate discourse
- Education in a multicultural society
- Reflections on 'Other People's Children' / Herbert Kohl
- Teaching the hard of head / Charles M. Payne
- Other people's children : the lasting impact / Patricia Lesesne.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
Description based on print version record.
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Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
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Digital Characteristics:
- text file
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Call Numbers:
- LC1099.3 .D45 2006eb
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ISBNs:
- 9781595586544 (electronic bk.)
1595586547 (electronic bk.)
9781595580740 [Invalid]
1595580743 [Invalid]
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Other Standard Numbers:
- International Article Number: 9781595580740
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OCLC Numbers:
- 662259031
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Other Control Numbers:
- EBC579022 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp3427306