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Richard R. Valencia - Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice - 9780415877107 - V9780415877107
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Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice

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Description for Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 black & white tables, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.

Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It "blames the victim" for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students and students of color from learning. Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to this oppressive theory by framing the linkages between prevailing theoretical perspectives and contemporary practices within the complex historical development of deficit thinking.

Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking examines the ongoing social construction of deficit thinking in three aspects of current discourse – the genetic pathology model, the culture of poverty model, and the "at-risk" model ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415877107
SKU
V9780415877107
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Richard R. Valencia
Richard R. Valencia is Professor of Educational Psychology and Faculty Associate of the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas, Austin.

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Winner of the 2011 AERA Outstanding Book Award Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association

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