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Lisa Delpit is an African American and a lifelong teacher who promotes the idea of having "visions of success for poor children and children of color." Her 1995 book, Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, discusses how to better train teachers by using nine specific factors, mostra altro among them understanding the brilliance of the children, recognizing and building on the children's strengths, using familiar metaphors and experiences from the children's world, and nurturing a sense of connection to a greater community, of which they are a part. Delpit's father owned a restaurant and her mother taught high school. Her parents set an example by providing free meals for local elementary school children who could not afford to buy lunch. This fostered in Delpit a commitment to helping others. Delpit was one of the first African Americans to attend desegregated Catholic schools in Louisiana. She also attended Antioch College in Ohio and Harvard University. She has worked at the University of Alaska, Morgan State University's Urban Institute for Urban Research, and Georgia State University, holding the Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban Educational Leadership. Delpit received a MacArthur Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Lisa Delpit has written another powerful book, and in fact, I believe that this most recent work delivers more than [b:Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom|65326|Other People's Children Cultural Conflict in the Classroom|Lisa Delpit|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328751519s/65326.jpg|63376], as her analysis and outlook have deepened and become more rounded. With a focus particularly trained on improving the education provided to African American students (and exposing the many ways in which the current educational system not only fails but tragically harms these students), Delpit points us in the direction of many changes that are tractable--if we choose to make them. Not only that, but many, if not all, of Delpit's critiques and suggestions really cross all boundaries of race, ethnicity and class. Honoring all people (read "students), their cultures and what they know when they walk into school at any grade, is important regardless, even if it is even more important for students that have been so discriminated against throughout history. One critique I would offer, similar in nature to what I felt after reading other work by Delpit, is that she tends towards reductionism in discussing "white" people or European American people. The social construct of "whiteness" is definitely a powerful force that needs to be recognized and dealt with, but it is not a simple thing in and of itself, despite it's dominance. Low-income and poor "white" people have tragedies and struggles too; those considered "white" now were not considered "white" decades ago. A discussion of the construction of these categories and how they serve the dominant culture, but don't always reflect the people onto whom they are inscribed would have strengthened this book. Still, I believe all people engaged in anyway in the project to provide a meaningful education to the children of this country should read this book.… (altro)
 
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lschiff | 5 altre recensioni | Sep 24, 2023 |
Despite our superficial multiculturalism, there is a dominant culture in our society - upper middle class, of European descent, and educated beyond high school, this is the ruling class of the United States.

This culture has some characteristics - an academic vocabulary, a form of social interaction, that guarantees an advantage in our school system.

There are children who are not raised in this dominant culture, Lisa Delpit's "Other People's Children" wrestles with how to educate them. Progressive teachers do not want to under mine the culture of the home by indoctrinating them in the dominant white culture. This means they will lack entry to the economic opportunity of dominant white culture.

Delpit is idealistic in thinking that teachers can negotiate this area between cultures to teach students the power of code switching. Her caveat is that having more teachers of color in schools makes this more likely to happen.
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jonbrammer | 4 altre recensioni | Jul 1, 2023 |
Note: this was required reading for Democracy Prep employees over the summer
 
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ACLopez6 | 5 altre recensioni | Feb 25, 2023 |
Cultural conflict in the Classroom
 
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jhawn | 4 altre recensioni | Jul 31, 2017 |

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