Freedom's Plow: Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom

by Fraser,Jim; Fraser,Jim

• ISBN13: 9780415907002
• ISBN10: 0415907004
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-02-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Freedom's Plowis the first volume designed to provide teachers and teachers-in-training with the practical resources they need to make their teaching practice and classrooms more multicultural. Parts II and III present the voices and experiences of teachers from first grade to college level who are actually engaged in multicultural teaching efforts. The contributors examine what redefining their practice as multicultural has meant for their work in terms of content, pedagogy, power and indeed their own attitudes and values. The volume concludes by focusing on the power arrangements, perspectives and personnel policies needed if schools are to emerge as truly multicultural, multiethnic democracies.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Multicultural Education: An Issue at the Heart of Democratic Education
Reconstructing Schools as Multiracial/Multicultural Democracies: Toward a Theoretical Perspective	p. 3
The Practice of Multicultural Education: Doing the Work
Different Ways of Seeing: Teaching in an Anti-Racist School	p. 27
Classroom Tapestry: A Practitioner's Perspective on Multicultural Education	p. 47
The Blind Men (Women) and the Elephant: A Case for a Comprehensive Multicultural Education Program at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School	p. 65
Transformative Pedagogy and Multiculturalism	p. 91
Multicultural Teacher Introspection	p. 99
Developing the Curriculum of Multicultural Education: Revisioning the Canon and Curriculum of the Schools
Promises, Pitfalls, and Principles of Text Selection in Curricular Diversification: The Asian-American Case	p. 109
Beyond Island Boundaries: Ethnicity, Gender, and Cultural Revitalization in Nuyorican Literature	p. 121
In Search of Asia through Music: Guidelines and Ideas for Teaching Asian Music	p. 143
African American Children's Literature: The First One Hundred Years	p. 167
The Passions of Pluralism: Multiculturalism and the Expanding Community	p. 185
To Fight Swimming with the Current: Teaching Movement History	p. 197
School Structures that Foster Multicultural Education: Shifting the Power, Shifting the Players
One Step Among Many: Affirming Identity in Anti-Racist Schools	p. 215
Afrocentric Immersion: Academic and Personal Development of African American Males in Public Schools	p. 231
"I Am Still Thirsty": A Theorization on the Authority and Cultural Location of Afrocentrism	p. 261
"Choice" for the Chosen: The False Promise of Market-Driven Education	p. 271
The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse	p. 285
About the Authors	p. 297
Index	p. 303
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