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Culture or Chaos in the Village
Ursula Thomas
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Description for Culture or Chaos in the Village
Hardback. Readers of this book will learn how to create and/or examine critical issues about culture and beliefs and the way these issues influence perceptions on how diverse learners experience learning. This book motivates the reader to examine, their own biases about instructional choices in the context of culture in classrooms. Num Pages: 154 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JNFR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Culture or Chaos in the Village: The Journey to Cultural Fluency seeks to provide a framework for examination of the factors that influence mediation of culture in the minds of teachers. The text moves in a manner that sets the tone for a courageous conversation. It is the intent of this book to facilitate a focused conversation, discussing the factors of race, class, and gender in conjunction with personal and professional belief systems of educators, preservice and inservice.
Culture or Chaos in the Village: The Journey to Cultural Fluency seeks to provide a framework for examination of the factors that influence mediation of culture in the minds of teachers. The text moves in a manner that sets the tone for a courageous conversation. It is the intent of this book to facilitate a focused conversation, discussing the factors of race, class, and gender in conjunction with personal and professional belief systems of educators, preservice and inservice.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9781607099246
SKU
V9781607099246
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Ref
99-15
About Ursula Thomas
Dr. Ursula Thomas is assistant professor of early childhood education and Birth through Age Five program coordinator at the University of West Georgia. Her research agenda includes issues of cultural mediation and its effects on instructional choices, the power of teacher educator research on diversity in the classroom, views of social justice in the early childhood classroom, and preservice teachers' ... Read more
Reviews for Culture or Chaos in the Village
Culture or Chaos has the uncanny ability to speak passionately and directly to those who study the teaching of children and those who actually teach children. From the first, to the last chapter the text bridges the often-gaping chasm between educational theory and teacher practice in an eloquent way that leads the reader to ask both researchers and teachers hard ... Read more