We Can't Teach What We Don't Know : White Teachers, Multiracial Schools,9780807746653

We Can't Teach What We Don't Know : White Teachers, Multiracial Schools

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780807746653
ISBN10: 0807746657
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-01-20
Publisher(s): Teachers College Pr
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Summary

Once again, in this expanded Second Edition, Gary Howard outlines what good teachers know, what they do, and how they embrace culturally responsive teaching. Howard brings his bestselling book completely up to date with today’s school reform efforts and includes a new introduction and a new chapter that speak directly to current issues such as closing the achievement gap, and to recent legislation such as No Child Left Behind. With our nation’s student population becoming ever more diverse, and teachers remaining largely White, this book is now more important than ever. A must-read in universities and school systems throughout the country, We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know continues to facilitate and deepen the discussion of race and social justice in education.

Author Biography

Gary R. Howard is president and founder of the REACH Center for Multicultural Education in Seattle, Washington

Table of Contents

Series Foreword ix
Foreword by Sonia Nieto xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1(12)
Diversity Is Not a Choice
3(2)
The Inner Work of Multicultural Teaching
5(2)
The Outer Work of Social Transformation
7(2)
Organization of Book
9(1)
Further Considerations
10(3)
1. White Man Dancing: A Story of Personal Transformation 13(16)
The Luxury of Ignorance
14(1)
Baptism by Fire
15(2)
Bringing It All Back Home
17(2)
Adventures of an Anti-Racist Racist
19(3)
Shaping an Authentic White Identity
22(4)
The Dance Continues
26(3)
2. White Dominance and the Weight of the West 29(24)
Reflections in the Eye of a Snake
30(1)
Social Dominance in Research and Theory
31(7)
The Lens of Indigenous Experience
38(11)
White Dominance in Theory and Practice
49(1)
The Possibility of Change
50(3)
3. Decoding the Dominance Paradigm 53(16)
The Dynamics of Dominance
53(13)
Possibilities for Hope and Healing
66(3)
4. White Educators and the River of Change 69(18)
The River of Diversity
70(2)
White Teachers and the Healing Response
72(13)
From Social Dominance to Social Justice
85(2)
5. Mapping the Journey of White Identity Development 87(14)
Theories of Racial Identity Development
88(10)
Cautionary Notes
98(3)
6. Ways of Being White: A Practitioner's Approach to Multicultural Growth 101(16)
White Identity Orientations
102(11)
Reflections on the Rhetoric of Whiteness
113(4)
7. White Teachers and School Reform: Toward a Transformationist Pedagogy 117(20)
Social Dominance and the Achievement Gap
118(3)
What Transformationist Teachers Know
121(5)
The Achievement Triangle
126(2)
What Transformationist Teachers Do
128(4)
Toward a Transformationist Pedagogy
132(2)
The Politics of Good Teaching
134(3)
8. Our Unfinished Work: White Educators and La Tierra Transformativa 137(8)
Complexity and Choice
137(2)
Community and Change
139(3)
Beyond the Borderlands: La Tierra Transformativa
142(3)
Guidelines for Discussion and Reflection 145(4)
References 149(14)
Index 163(9)
About the Author 172

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