Full name: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

Author: Lisa Delpit Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781595580740 1595580743

Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s “great books,” Other People’s Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This anniversary paperback edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne.In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award–winning author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better “cultural transmitters” in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and “other people’s children” struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system.A new classic among educators, Other People’s Children is a must-read for teachers, administrators, and parents striving to improve the quality of America’s education system. Similar books: Marva Collins' Way by Marva Collins Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman A Different Kind of Teacher by John Taylor Gatto Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol The End of Education by Neil Postman Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto The way it spozed to be by James Herndon There Are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder Left Back by Diane Ravitch Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol 36 Children by Herbert Kohl Radical Reflections by Mem Fox