The dreamkeepers [electronic resource] : successful teachers of African American children / Gloria Ladson-Billings.

By: Ladson-Billings, Gloria, 1947-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c2009Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxii, 225 pISBN: 9781118622988 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): African Americans -- Education | Teaching | Educational anthropology -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 371.829/96073 LOC classification: LC2717 | .L33 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
A dream deferred -- Does culture matter? -- Seeing color, seeing culture -- We are family -- The tree of knowledge -- Culturally relevant teaching -- Making dreams into reality.
Summary: Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style. What matters most is a teacher's efforts to work with the unique strengths a child brings to the classroom. --from publisher description.
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Includes discussion questions.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.

A dream deferred -- Does culture matter? -- Seeing color, seeing culture -- We are family -- The tree of knowledge -- Culturally relevant teaching -- Making dreams into reality.

Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style. What matters most is a teacher's efforts to work with the unique strengths a child brings to the classroom. --from publisher description.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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