Full Description
Contributing authors share a deep commitment to naming ways in which social exclusion has diminished the educational and life chances of many students in our various sites of work and regions of the world - and to moving the discourse and action beyond pedagogies of exclusion to a more visionary and inclusive praxis.
Contents
Series Editors' Preface; M.N.Bloch , G.S.Cannella & B.Blue Swadener Foreword; Joseph Tobin Introduction; B.Blue Swadener , S.Mitakidou , E.Tressou & C.Grant PART I: PEDAGOGIES AND POLICIES OF INCLUSION Learner Differences: Determining the Terms of Pedagogical Engagement; M.Kalantzis & B.Cope Language as Racism: A New Policy of Exclusion; P.Gounari & D.Macedo Policies as Top-Down Structures versus as Lived Realities: An Investigation of Literacy Policies in Greek Schools; T.Kostouli & S.Mitakidou Pedagogies of Inclusion: Lessons from Escola Cidadã; G.E.Fischman & L.Armando Gandin Persistent Exclusions in Post-Apartheid Education: Experiences of Black Parents; B.Ndimande PART II: CURRICULAR CONVERSATIONS: SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES The Curriculum and Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion; W.Au & M.Apple Starting with What the Children and their Families Know: An Argentine Elementary School Addresses Issues of Underperformance of Bolivian Immigrant Children; M.Q.Foote & M.Mazzola Toward Democracy in Classrooms and Social Studies; D.Hess & S.Murto Culturally Inclusive Mathematics Practices; W.Secada PART III: TOWARD INCLUSIONARY TEACHER EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Pedagogies of Inclusion in Teacher Education: Global Perspectives; C.E.Sleeter Toward a "Critical Emancipatory Mezcla Praxis": Xicana Participatory Action Research in Teacher Education; L.Diaz Soto Equity Issues in Early Childhood Teacher Learning in Australia; G.MacNaughton How the Politics of Domestication Sabotage Teachers' Professional Growth and Students' Learning; A.Rodriguez Re-Thinking American Education through Indigenous Wisdom and Teachings; K.Manuelito & M.Roanhorse-Dineyahze Reframing Refugee Education in Kenya as an Inclusionary Practice of Pedagogy; W.Pauline Gichiru & D.B.Larkin Epilogue; C.A.Grant
