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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255124003321

Autore

Pimentel Charise

Titolo

The (Im)possible Multicultural Teacher [[electronic resource] ] : A Critical Approach to Understanding White Teachers’ Multicultural Work / / by Charise Pimentel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam : , : SensePublishers : , : Imprint : SensePublishers, , 2017

ISBN

94-6351-146-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (CXXII, 10 p.)

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Education

Education, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Charise Pimentel -- Introduction / Charise Pimentel -- Mr. Potts’ Dual Language Classroom / Charise Pimentel -- Ms. DeGraw’s ESL Classroom / Charise Pimentel -- Megan’s School Success Class / Charise Pimentel -- Conclusion / Charise Pimentel -- Methodology / Charise Pimentel -- References / Charise Pimentel -- Index / Charise Pimentel.

Sommario/riassunto

The (Im)possible Multicultural Teacher: A Critical Approach to Understanding White Teachers’ Multicultural Work provides a nuanced examination of what committed and critical-minded White teachers can do to transform educational inequities in their racially and linguistically diverse classrooms. Drawing from an ethnographic research study with three White teachers working at elementary, middle, and high school levels, this book provides a theoretical frame for understanding teachers’ multicultural practices as well as three detailed case study chapters that document the teachers’ attempts at implementing multicultural practices. Within each case study chapter, the author defines the sociopolitical context in which the teachers work and that ultimately shapes the (im)possibilities of their multicultural practices. The ethnographic research data show that the teachers’ processes of implementing multicultural education are characterized by not only transformative pedagogies, but also pedagogical practices that take up and (re)produce the racial ideologies that make their multicultural



endeavors difficult, if not impossible, to actualize. As the title of this book suggests, the author seeks to examine both the possibilities and impossibilities—the (im)possibilities—of White teachers implementing multicultural education.