Racial and Ethnic Identity in School Practices : Aspects of Human Development

by Sheets, Rosa H.; Sheets, Rosa Hernández; Deyhle, Donna; Lee, Stacey J.

• ISBN13: 9780805827880
• ISBN10: 0805827889
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This book demonstrates and explicates the work of scholars and practitioners who are exploring the interconnectedness of racial and ethnic identity scholarship to human development in order to promote successful pedagogical practices and services. Racial and ethnic identity issues are brought directly to schooling so that teaching-learning experiences, psychological services, and counseling practices within the educational process can be made more effective for a greater number of students. By acknowledging that the racial and ethnic psychological experiences of individuals are consequential, the volume: * Provides scholars and students in psychology, educational psychology, counseling, and teacher preparation programs with current research on racial and ethnic identity formation and human development. * Explains why traditional theories of human development, which lack racial and ethnic dimensions and which have evolved exclusively from a Eurocentric perspective, are problematic. * Documents current best practices from psychology, educational leadership, counseling, and teaching and classroom practices that support the claim that practitioners who are aware of racial and ethnic identity (their own and others) are better prepared to respond to students from their own background as well as those from other racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. Part I explains why the relationship among racial identity, ethnic identity, and human development is critical to schooling and provides the conceptual framework guiding and unifying subsequent chapters. In Part II, current research in racial and ethnic identity is presented and discussed. Challenges and strategies for multicultural practices are the focus of Part III. This book's goal is to help researchers, practitioners, and graduate students whose work directly intersects educational issues and the needs of children within the school environment to interpret and contextualize relevant research and theory, and to bridge theory into practice.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I Racial and Ethnic Identity Theory and Human Development
Race and Human Development	7	(22)
Curtis W. Branch
African American Identity Development Across the Life Span: Educational Implications	29	(20)
William E. Cross Jr.
Linda Strauss
Peony Fhagen-Smith
White Identity Formation: A Developmental Process	49	(18)
Tina Q. Richardson
Timothy J. Silvestri
The Biracial Baby Boom: Understanding Ecological Constructions of Racial Identity in the 21st Century	67	(24)
Maria P. P. Root
Human Development and Ethnic Identity	91	(16)
Rosa Hernandez Sheets
Part II Research on Racial and Ethnic Identity Theory and Human Development
``Are You Chinese or What¿'' Ethnic Identity Among Asian Americans	107	(16)
Stacey J. Lee
Cultural Differences in Child Development: Navajo Adolescents in Middle Schools	123	(18)
Donna Deyhle
Margaret LeCompte
The Transmission of Family Values Across Generations of Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo American Families: Implications for Mental Health	141	(16)
Norma Rodriguez
Manuel Ramirez III
Maurice Korman
Relating Competence in an Urban Classroom to Ethnic Identity Development	157	(26)
Rosa Hernandez Sheets
Part III Challenges and Strategies for Multicultural Practices
Relating Ethnic and Racial Identity Development to Teaching	183	(12)
Etta R. Hollins
Ethnic Identity Development and Multicultural Education	195	(18)
Geneva Gay
Working With Children and Adolescents in the Schools: Multicultural Counseling Implications	213	(18)
Amy L. Reynolds
Lessons for Leaders: Using Critical Inquiry to Promote Identity Development	231	(14)
Edward Taylor
About the Contributors	245	(4)
Author Index	249	(8)
Subject Index	257