Full Description
The authors of this book provide caring advice to Black, Indigenous, and Teachers of Color (BITOC) to help sustain them into and through the teaching profession. Through an examination of BITOC in the education workforce, the assets that these educators bring to the teaching profession are identified, as are some of the most critical challenges they face in today's schools. The book illuminates the importance of cultivating and supporting social cultural identities as resources that will serve prospective teachers and their increasingly diverse students. Rooted in an identity sustaining framework, the authors strongly encourage BITOC to bring their full cultural, social, and linguistic assets into the classroom while simultaneously encouraging their students to do the same. Creating a Home in Schools will help readers successfully negotiate and navigate the teaching profession, from pathway programs, to teacher education, and into the classroom. Book Features:
Explores major contextual constraints that BITOC will have to understand and navigate.
Identifies the cultural and linguistic assets BITOC bring with them and how to make these a central part of their teaching.
Focuses on the importance of a strong sense of identity and how to approach teaching and learning in identity sustaining ways.
Offers guidance for enacting culturally sustaining pedagogies that are rooted in BITOC identities to serve the needs of their students.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)
Series Foreword James A. Banks
Preface: This Political Moment—A House in Disarray?
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Who We Are and Where We Stand
The Framework
Chapter Overviews
A Note About Terminology
Getting the Most From This Text
1. The Community: Mapping the Contours of the Profession
An (All-Too) Brief History of Education for Students of Color
Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration: An Extended Example
Schooling and Diversity in the Contemporary Era
Concluding Reflections
2. The House: Finding Your Theoretical/Ideological Foundations
Understanding Theories of Minoritized Student Performance in Schools
Critical Theories of Schooling for Diverse Children and Youth
Concluding Reflections
3. The Entryway: Representing Through Multicultural and Culturally Centering Education
Multicultural Education: Our Historical Roots
Defining Multicultural Education
Culturally Centering Education as Multicultural Education
Teachers of Color: Exploring Your Own Principles of Practice
Concluding Reflections
4. The Living Room: Sustaining Identities Through Teaching and Learning
Diversity in the Teaching Profession:
On Identity
Identity-Sustaining Pedagogies
Concluding Reflections
5. The Kitchen (and the Closet): Getting Real About Schooling
Finding Nuances Between Public and Private Spaces
The Challenges of Being a BITOC
The Closet: Opening Ourselves and Being Vulnerable . . . out of Necessity
Preprofessional Advice for Preservice BITOCs
Pursuing Your First Teaching Position
Concluding Reflections
6. The Patio: Re/energizing Yourself in Community
Cautionary Tales: From Damage Narratives to Desire Narratives
Engaging in Meaningful and Critical Reflection and Self-Reflexivity
Sustaining Ourselves Through Self-Care
Building Allies
Recognizing and Embracing Joy
On Chisme
Teacher Education Programs Have a Role, Too
Concluding Reflections
7. The Rooftop: Visioning and Action Planning for Sustainable Futures
Bringing It All Together
Envisioning Futurities
Theories of Change
Career Development: A Purposeful Trajectory
Activist Teacher Leaders
Action Planning
Telling Your Story
On Hope
Our Unfinishedness
Concluding Reflections
PostScript (PS)
Appendix A: The Toolshed
Appendix B: A Note to White Readers
Appendix C: Other Goals for Culturally Centering Education
Appendix D: An Action-Planning Worksheet: Crafting Your Story
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors
