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Beyond heroes and holidays : a practical guide to K-12 anti-racist, multicultural education and staff development
2002

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An interdisciplinary guide of lessons and readings on analysing the roots of racism; investigating the impact of racism on lives and communities; examining the relationship between racism and other forms of oppression such as sexism, classism and heterosexism; and ideas for dismantling racism from schools, communities and wider society.

Item Details

ISBN: 9781878554178

Edition: Second edition.

Description: xiii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

  • School Staff, Family and Community Development
  • Anti-Racist Education: Pulling Together to Close the Gaps / Enid Lee
  • Educating for Equality: Forging a Shared Vision / Louise Derman-Sparks
  • Affirmation, Solidarity and Critique: Moving Beyond Tolerance in Education / Sonia Nieto
  • Educating for Critical Practice / Margo Okazawa-Rey
  • Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform / James A. Banks
  • Teaching Whites About Racism / Christine Sleeter
  • White Racial Identity and Anti-Racist Education: A Catalyst for Change / Sandra M. Lawrence and Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • True Colors of the New Jim Toomey: Transformation, Integrity, Trust in Educating Teachers About Oppression / Cindy Cohen
  • Activities for Workshops, Courses and Institutes
  • Personal Cultural History Exercise / Margo Okazawa-Rey
  • De-Tracking the Tracking Dialogue / Deborah Menkart
  • Tracking Teacher Expectations and Student Outcomes / Noni Mendoza Reis and Irene McGinty
  • What Is the Bias Here? Staff Development for Critical Literacy
  • White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack / Peggy McIntosh
  • White Privilege in Schools / Ruth Anne Olson
  • Developing Positive Racial Attitudes / CIBC
  • Do You Know Where the Parents of Your Children Are? / Hugh McKeown
  • Why Do You Force Your Ways? / Frank Fingarsen
  • Growing Up Gay / Katherine Whitlock
  • Understanding the Needs of Youth: "Who 'You Calling Violent?" / Luis Rodriguez
  • B.S. in Education (Poem) / Toni Blackman
  • When the Frame Becomes the Picture / Clem Marshall
  • Dear High School Teacher / Kai James
  • Dear Principal / Muriel Clarke
  • What I've Learned About Undoing Racism / Andrea Ayvazian
  • Distancing Behaviors Often Used by White People / James Edler and Bruce Irons
  • "Every one of our teachers believed in us." (Essay) / Debbie Wei
  • Butterflies (Short Story) / Patricia Grace
  • Reading Between the Lines: Critical Literacy
  • Lies My Textbook Told Me: Racism and Anti-Racism in U.S. History / James Loewen
  • Men (Poem) / E. Ethelbert Miller
  • Bias in Children's Movies: Pocahontas / Tom Roderick, Laura McClure and Chief Roy Crazy Horse
  • So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans (Poem) / Jimmy Santiago Baca
  • Arab Stereotypes and American Educators / Marvin Wingfield and Bushra Karaman
  • Media Myths Contribute to Hunger in Africa / Deborah Menkart
  • Language
  • Best of Both Worlds / Marlene Carter
  • Language Diversity and Learning / Lisa Delpit
  • "Say 'ask, ' Deneese" (Story Excerpt) / A.J. Verdelle[greater than or equal]
  • Racism in the English Language / Robert B. Moore
  • Yuba City School (Poem) / Chitra Divakaruni
  • Equity and Literacy: The Challenge of the Decade / Enid Lee
  • Bilingual Education: Talking Points / J. David Ramirez
  • Linguistic Human Rights and Education / Alma Flor Ada
  • Lessons for the Classroom
  • Early Childhood
  • Activism and Preschool Children / Louise Derman-Sparks
  • Redefining the Norm: Early Childhood Anti-Bias Strategies / Ellen Wolpert
  • Social Studies and Language Arts
  • Students' Stories in Action Comics / Debbie Wei
  • Para Teresa (Poem) / Ines Hernandez-Avila
  • Portrait Poems: Stepping into the World of Others / Linda Christensen
  • Mountains of Prejudice; Streams of Justice: The Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role Play / Bill Bigelow
  • Institutionalization of Racism / Deborah Menkart
  • Violence, the KKK, and the Struggle for Equality / CEA / NEA and CIB
  • Business of Drugs / Deborah Menkart
  • Cost of an Election / Ben Forbes
  • Exclusion-Chinese in 19th Century America / Debbie Wei
  • Angel Island / Debbie Wei
  • Paradise and the Politics of Tourist Hawai'i / Wayne Au
  • Mathematics
  • Exploring Economic Inequities / Jan M. Goodman
  • Reading the World with Math: Goals for a Critical Mathematical Literacy Curriculum / Marilyn Frankenstein
  • Algebra Project / Liz Hottel
  • Science and Geography
  • Question of Biology: Are the Races Different? / Richard C. Lewontin
  • Issues Approach to Chemistry
  • Theme for Biology: Crop Diver

LCCN: 2002110932

Control Number: 2509535

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Teaching for Change, [2002]
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