The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities

by Nieto, Sonia

• ISBN13: 9780807750544
• ISBN10: 0807750549
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-04
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

In the 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help to explain the current sociopolitical environment - our increasing diversity, the altering conditions in schools and in society, the influence ofperverty on learning, and the impact of NCLB on classrooms and schools.

Author Biography

Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, She is the author of the bestselling books Why We Teach and What Keeps Teachers Going?

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The Sociopolitics of Schooling: A Prologue to the 10th Anniversary Edition	p. 1
Introduction	p. 23
Learning, the Social Context, and Multicultural Education	p. 33
Learning and Inequality	p. 50
Reaction to Ethnic Notions	p. 52
What Difference Does Difference Make?	p. 63
Pressures to Conform	p. 64
Culture and Learning	p. 77
Who Does the Accommodating? Institutional Transformation to Promote Learning	p. 101
Start from Where Kids Are At	p. 103
My Journey	p. 107
Morning Questions	p. 109
Pedagogical Strategies as Magical Cures	p. 111
Being Nice Is Not Enough	p. 114
Perceptions of the Bilingual Program	p. 115
Social Class, Language, and Learning	p. 118
Connecting with Students	p. 125
Teaching as Love	p. 127
Critical Pedagogy, Empowerment and Learning	p. 130
Leaving My World Outside	p. 137
Letter to Ms. Curry	p. 137
Looking from the Edge	p. 139
A Boost of Adrenaline	p. 140
Differences Matter	p. 141
Reaction to the Article	p. 148
A Letter from Kaeli	p. 151
The Personal and Collective Transformation of Teachers	p. 155
The Discomfort of My Identity	p. 157
The Privilege of Speaking, Reading, and Writing the English Language	p. 157
A Kid from Jersey: White Privilege and "a Little Too Ethnic)"	p. 161
On Becoming a White Ally	p. 163
Enriching Differences	p. 164
Being on the Winning Team	p. 165
Cultural Knowledge and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy	p. 167
Mi Semestre de Español: A Case Study on the Cultural Dimension of Second-Language Acquisition	p. 169
Being Black and Multicultural	p. 178
Racism	p. 180
Why I Went Back to School	p. 183
Creating Learning Communities: Implications for Multicultural Education	p. 184
Epilogue	p. 199
References	p. 222
Index	p. 242
About the Author	p. 256
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