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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779258803321

Autore

Sleeter Christine E. <1948-, >

Titolo

Keepers of the American dream : a study of staff development and multicultural education / / Christine E. Sleeter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-51017-6

1-280-77658-7

9786613686978

1-136-51018-4

0-203-14731-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (446 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions: education ; ; 121

Disciplina

370.1170973

370.19/341

370.19341

Soggetti

Multicultural education - United States

Teachers - In-service training - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1992 by Falmer Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The American Dream in the 1980s; 2. Staff Development for Multicultural Education; 3. The Teachers in their Classrooms; 4. Experiencing Staff Development; 5. Looking for Effects of Staff Development in the Classroom; 6. A Second Year of Staff Development; 7. Preserving the American Dream; 8. Multicultural Education, Staff Development, and a New American Dream; Postscript; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book reports an ethnographic study of thirty teachers from eighteen schools who participated in a staff development programme in multicultural education. The study examines how multicultural education was actually presented to teachers, and areas in which their classroom teaching and perception of students changed over the two-year period. Although most of the teachers reported learning a good deal, changes in their teaching and their discussions of teaching were fairly limited. After reporting the data, the book examines why changes



were limited, analyzing three areas: the natu