How Children Learn

Getting Beyond the Deficit Myth
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-59451-104-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Series in Critical Narrative

The inspirational stories of young learners in this book discredit assumptions behind recent educational reforms, including high stakes testing and No Child Left Behind policies. The experiences of the American Indian children and the author, a kindergarten teacher, challenge the widely held assumption that minority children enter school "at risk." Deficit theory assumes that minority children are responsible for their failure by cultural deficiency or family ineptitude. Fayden vividly shows how truly equitable treatment of minority children can improve students' inherent abilities to learn and can result in higher achievement for minority and all young children.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fayden, Terese

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Background; Chapter 2 A Short History of the People; Chapter 3 The Social Construction of Knowledge; Chapter 4 The Children’s Pre-History of Writing; Chapter 5 The Emergence of Writing; Chapter 6 Curriculum: Two Kinds of Literacy; Chapter 7 Multiculturalism Enacted: An Equity Pedagogy;

Über Autor(innen)

Fayden, Terese