We Can't Teach What We Don't Know : White Teachers, Multiracial Schools

by Howard, Gary R.

• ISBN13: 9780807746653
• ISBN10: 0807746657
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-20
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Once again, in this expanded Second Edition, Gary Howard outlines what good teachers know, what they do, and how they embrace culturally responsive teaching. Howard brings his bestselling book completely up to date with today’s school reform efforts and includes a new introduction and a new chapter that speak directly to current issues such as closing the achievement gap, and to recent legislation such as No Child Left Behind. With our nation’s student population becoming ever more diverse, and teachers remaining largely White, this book is now more important than ever. A must-read in universities and school systems throughout the country, We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know continues to facilitate and deepen the discussion of race and social justice in education.

Author Biography

Gary R. Howard is president and founder of the REACH Center for Multicultural Education in Seattle, Washington

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	ix
Foreword by Sonia Nieto	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction	1	(12)
Diversity Is Not a Choice	3	(2)
The Inner Work of Multicultural Teaching	5	(2)
The Outer Work of Social Transformation	7	(2)
Organization of Book	9	(1)
Further Considerations	10	(3)
1. White Man Dancing: A Story of Personal Transformation	13	(16)
The Luxury of Ignorance	14	(1)
Baptism by Fire	15	(2)
Bringing It All Back Home	17	(2)
Adventures of an Anti-Racist Racist	19	(3)
Shaping an Authentic White Identity	22	(4)
The Dance Continues	26	(3)
2. White Dominance and the Weight of the West	29	(24)
Reflections in the Eye of a Snake	30	(1)
Social Dominance in Research and Theory	31	(7)
The Lens of Indigenous Experience	38	(11)
White Dominance in Theory and Practice	49	(1)
The Possibility of Change	50	(3)
3. Decoding the Dominance Paradigm	53	(16)
The Dynamics of Dominance	53	(13)
Possibilities for Hope and Healing	66	(3)
4. White Educators and the River of Change	69	(18)
The River of Diversity	70	(2)
White Teachers and the Healing Response	72	(13)
From Social Dominance to Social Justice	85	(2)
5. Mapping the Journey of White Identity Development	87	(14)
Theories of Racial Identity Development	88	(10)
Cautionary Notes	98	(3)
6. Ways of Being White: A Practitioner's Approach to Multicultural Growth	101	(16)
White Identity Orientations	102	(11)
Reflections on the Rhetoric of Whiteness	113	(4)
7. White Teachers and School Reform: Toward a Transformationist Pedagogy	117	(20)
Social Dominance and the Achievement Gap	118	(3)
What Transformationist Teachers Know	121	(5)
The Achievement Triangle	126	(2)
What Transformationist Teachers Do	128	(4)
Toward a Transformationist Pedagogy	132	(2)
The Politics of Good Teaching	134	(3)
8. Our Unfinished Work: White Educators and La Tierra Transformativa	137	(8)
Complexity and Choice	137	(2)
Community and Change	139	(3)
Beyond the Borderlands: La Tierra Transformativa	142	(3)
Guidelines for Discussion and Reflection	145	(4)
References	149	(14)
Index	163	(9)
About the Author	172