Dream not of other worlds [[electronic resource] ] : teaching in a segregated elementary school, 1970 / / Huston Diehl

• Autore: Diehl Huston <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.829/960755465
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Education - Virginia - Louisa County; Segregation in education - Virginia - Louisa County; First year teachers
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; A Part of Me; Concerning This Little Frightened Child; Reach Up Your Hand, Dark Boy, and Take a Star; Larger Than Truth Can Be; Where Is the Jim Crow Section on This Merry-Go-Round?; The Too-Rough Fingers of the World; It Was a Long Time Ago; Afterword; Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a ""Negro"" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school's white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach ""those children"" anything. She soon discovered how these low expectations, widely shared by the white community, impeded her students' ability to learn. With its overcrowded classrooms, poorly trained teachers, empty bookshelves, and meager supplies, her segregated school was vastly inferior to the county's white elementary schools, and the message it sent her students was clear: ""dream not
• Titolo autorizzato: Dream not of other worlds
• ISBN: 1-58729-716-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820454303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sightline books.