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Product Identifiers

PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-100470408154

ISBN-139780470408155

eBay Product ID (ePID)70914918

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameDream Keepers : Successful Teachers of African American Children

Publication Year2009

SubjectMulticultural Education, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Inclusive Education, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Teaching Methods & Materials / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorGloria Ladson-Billings

Subject AreaSocial Science, Education

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-055675

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal370/.8996073

Table Of ContentForeword to the New Edition vii Preface xv The Author xxi 1 A Dream Deferred 1 2 Does Culture Matter? 17 3 Seeing Color, Seeing Culture 33 4 We Are Family 59 5 The Tree of Knowledge 85 6 Culturally Relevant Teaching 111 7 Making Dreams into Reality 139 Afterword 157 Appendix A: Methodology 179 Appendix B: Context 193 Notes 203 Index 217 Discussion Questions 221

SynopsisIn the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers , Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits theeight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style., In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers , Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style. What matters most is a teacher's efforts to work with the unique strengths a child brings to the classroom. A brilliant mixture of scholarship and storytelling, The Dreamkeepers challenges us to envision intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant classrooms that have the power to improve the lives of not just African American students, but all children. This new edition also includes questions for reflection, The Dreamkeepers In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style. What matters most is a teachers efforts to work with the unique strengths a child brings to the classroom. A brilliant mixture of scholarship and storytelling, The Dreamkeepers challenges us to envision intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant classrooms that have the power to improve the lives of not just African American students, but all children. This new edition also includes questions for reflection. Praise for the First Edition "The Dreamkeepers keeps hope alive for educating young African Americans." --Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, president and founder, National Rainbow Coalition "The Dreamkeepers is an immensely important and useful book for teachers and teacher educators. . . . In a creative, credible, and persuasive way, Gloria Ladson-Billings has made a major contribution to the field of multicultural education." --JaCqueline Jordan Irvine, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Urban Education,Emory University "Ladson-Billings integrates scholarly research with stories of eight successful teachers in a predominantly African American school district to illustrate that the dream of all teachers and parents--academic success for all children--is alive and can be emulated." --Library Journal "Here is a book filled with pride and questions that should stimulate anyone interested in improving education." --Booklist

LC Classification NumberLC2717