TY - BOOK AU - Ladson-Billings,Gloria ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The dreamkeepers: successful teachers of African American children AV - LC2717 .L33 2009 U1 - 371.829/96073 22 PY - 2009/// CY - San Francisco, Calif. PB - Jossey-Bass Publishers KW - African Americans KW - Education KW - Teaching KW - Educational anthropology KW - United States KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1132872 ER -