Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice

by Valencia; Richard R.

• ISBN13: 9780415877107
• ISBN10: 0415877105
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-04-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This important new book provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to the oppressive theory of deficit thinking in education.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. viii
Series Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
The Construct of Deficit Thinking	p. 1
Neohereditarianism: Pseudoscientific Explanations for Racial Differences in Intelligence	p. 19
Ruby Payne's Mindsets of Poverty, Middle Class, and Wealth: A Resurrection of the Culture of Poverty Concept	p. 68
At-Risk Students or At-Risk Schools?	p. 101
Deconstructing Deficit Thinking: Practical Solutions for Teacher Educators, Educational Leaders, and Educational Ethnographers	p. 126
Conclusion: (A) The Bankruptcy of the Standards-Based School Reform Movement; (B) Toward the Construction of Meaningful School Reform: Democratic Education	p. 148
Notes	p. 159
References	p. 183
Index	p. 215
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