Un-Standardizing Curriculum

by Sleeter, Christine E.

• ISBN13: 9780807746226
• ISBN10: 0807746223
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

"How can teachers learn to teach rich, academically rigorous multicultural curricula under current standardization constraints? In her new book, Christine Sleeter offers a much-needed framework to help teachers take on this challenge. By contrasting key curricular assumptions with those of multicultural education, she reveals the aspects they share as well as the conceptual and political differences between them. Sleeter makes, a strong case for what teachers can do to "unstandardize" knowledge in their own classrooms, while working toward high standards of academic achievement."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Christine E. Sleeter is Professor Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword, James A. Banks	vii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(4)
1. Standards, Multicultural Education, and Central Curriculum Questions	5	(23)
Standards and Diverse Funds of Knowledge	5	(3)
Central Curriculum Questions	8	(14)
Framework for Multicultural Curriculum Design	22	(6)
2. Teachers' Beliefs About Knowledge	28	(15)
Teachers' Beliefs	29	(3)
Teachers Reflect on Their Beliefs	32	(8)
From Self-Examination to Action	40	(3)
3. Designing Curriculum Around Big Ideas	43	(21)
Organizing Curriculum for Meaning and Engagement	44	(2)
Planning Around Big Ideas	46	(8)
Ideology and Content Standards	54	(6)
Possibilities and Challenges	60	(4)
4. Democratized Assessment	64	(18)
Reform-by-Testing and Curriculum	65	(6)
Classroom-Based Assessment	71	(8)
Possibilities and Challenges	79	(3)
5. Transformative Intellectual Knowledge and Curriculum	82	(23)
What Is Transformative Intellectual Knowledge?	83	(2)
Limits of the Additive Approach to Curriculum	85	(4)
Counternarratives and Transformative Intellectual Knowledge	89	(2)
Investigating Transformative Intellectual Knowledge	91	(10)
Possibilities and Challenges	101	(4)
6. Students as Curriculum	105	(21)
Knowledge Students Bring to School	106	(10)
Curriculum as a Complicated Conversation Across Diverse Perspectives	116	(8)
Possibilities and Challenges	124	(2)
7. Intellectual Challenge of Curriculum	126	(22)
Expectations	127	(6)
Curriculum Planning and Intellectual Challenge	133	(6)
Building Enabling Strategies Into Curriculum	139	(6)
Possibilities and Challenges	145	(3)
8. Curriculum Resources	148	(19)
Student Identity and Curriculum Resources	149	(7)
Resource Form and Student Learning	156	(5)
Locating Resources	161	(4)
Possibilities and Challenges	165	(2)
9. Multicultural Curriculum, Democracy, and Visionary Pragmatism	167	(16)
Curriculum and Democracy	168	(11)
Administrative Support	179	(1)
Visionary Pragmatism in a Time of Standardization	180	(3)
References	183	(18)
Index	201	(9)
About the Author	210