Purposeful teaching and learning in diverse contexts : implications for access, equity and achievement

Teachers have faced serious public critique regarding their effectiveness and professionalism in classrooms. At every level, their work is often measured solely against student achievement outcomes, often on standardized tests (Darling-Hammond & Youngs, 2002; Ravitch, 2010). Unfortunately, stude...

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Other Authors Hucks, Darrell, 1966- (Editor), Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda (Editor), Showunmi, Victoria (Editor), Carothers, Suzanne C. (Editor, writer of foreword.), Lewis, Chance W. 1972- (Editor), White-Smith, Kimberly A. (writer of afterword.)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., 2022.
SeriesContemporary perspectives on access, equity, and achievement.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806603084
DOI10.1108/978-1-64802-752-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xxix, 502 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: The cornerstone / Suzannne C. Carothers
  • Section I. Teaching & pedagogy
  • Chapter 1. A legacy of literacy: Mathematics teachers and the quests for racial justice / Nathan N. Alexander
  • Chapter 2. Latrisha's choice: Toward an "economic turn" in urban education / Michael J. Dumas
  • Chapter 3. One art teacher empowering urban youth with critical arts pedagogy / Cleveland Hayes and Luis Genaro Garcia
  • Chapter 4. When black girls unite: How critical teacher reflection can lead to a pedagogy of power / Monique Lane
  • Chapter 5. Trans*ing pedagogy: Recognition of trans* and gender creative youth in the secondary ela classroom / sj Miller
  • Chapter 6. 40 hours of strategy: Making sense of pedagogical dissonance through reflection / Joyanne Beverly De Four-Babb
  • Chapter 7. Libro + biblioteca = libertad: Dual language education and humane teaching at the texas-mexico borderlands / Rodrigo Joseph Rodriguez
  • Chapter 8. Teaching and (re) thinking student achievement: Policy implications on leadership preparation and praxis / Cosette Grant
  • Chapter 9. Love as a moral imperative in teaching and teacher education / Shamari K. Reid, and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
  • Section II. Culturally relevant approaches
  • Chapter 10. Teaching in an age of state sanctioned lynching: Employing culturally sustaining pedagogy to respond to persistent social inequity / Travis J. Bristol and Aukeem Ballard
  • Chapter 11. Curriculum, race and representation in undergraduate art education programs / Alphonso Walter Grant
  • Chapter 12. The relationship between family literacy interactions and third grade reading achievement / Howard Tyrone Miller
  • Chapter 13. Youth organizing as a vehicle for cultivating politically engaged learning / Wanda Watson
  • Chapter 14. Student ambassadors: Developing pedagogies to promote new learning practices / Clare Gartland
  • Chapter 15. Knowing you, knowing me: The art of purposeful teaching / Victoria Showunmi
  • Chapter 16. Teacher thinking in Australia and the United States: A cross-cultural examination / John P. Sturtz and Paul Reitano
  • Chapter 17. Multicultural inclusion: Strategies for teachers in today's classrooms / Kimarie I. Rahman Bey
  • Section III. Transformative practices
  • Chapter 18. I love myself: Becoming designers of urban futures in production-centered contexts / Danielle Filipiak
  • Chapter 19. Educational apartheid: Resisting whiteness in South African schools / Christopher B. Knaus
  • Chapter 20. What do we do in the meantime? Practical solutions for eliminating educational inequities in urban schools right now / Amber Bryant, Marcia Watson, Ayana Allen, and Chance W. Lewis
  • Chapter 21. Moving purposeful teaching and learning beyond the college classroom bubble / Darrell Hucks, Tanya Sturtz and Katherine Tirabassi
  • Chapter 22. From play school to real school transforming a classroom of practice through critical pedagogy / Hope Mayne
  • Chapter 23. Purposeful teaching and learning: Realities and possibilities / Carmel Roofe
  • Chapter 24. Countering anti-blackness and symbolic violence through empathy in the schooling experiences of young black men and boys / Justin A. Coles and Chezare A. Warren
  • Chapter 25. Expanding communities of practice: Collaboration and mentoring in educational leadership and teacher education / Limarys Caraballo, Soribel Genao, and Anastasiya Lipnevich
  • Section IV. Conceptual and theoretical frameworks
  • Chapter 26. Chile, a fox be just a fox: Black girlhood narratives as rhetorical and curricular intervention in college instruction / Carmen Kynard
  • Chapter 27. Living my brother's keeper: Examining the raced and gendered knowledge of a black male teacher / Keisha McIntosh Allen
  • Chapter 28. What good students must unlearn to become good teachers: Best practices in context / Leigh Patel, Kathryn Coursey, Samantha Gross, and Sally Snickerberger
  • Chapter 29. Seeing beyond bias and cultural stigma in order to engage students in purposeful learning / Ivory Toldson and Lisa Haileab
  • Chapter 30. Tensions and possibilities in developing cosmopolitan literacies through english education: Perspectives from singapore schools / Suzanne S. Choo and Csilla Weninger
  • Chapter 31. Liberatory pedagogies antoloji / Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé
  • Chapter 32. Black, male and successful: Voices from male African Caribbean educational leaders in London secondary schools / Phillip A. Smith
  • Chapter 33. Contemplating 400 years of inequality / Angel Acosta
  • Chapter 34. Racial congruence and its impact on the academic achievement of African American students: Then and now / Cluny Lavache. Afterword / Kimberly White Smith. About the Contributors.