Full Description
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.
Contents
ContentsEditor's Note ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction to the 2005 Edition xiiiIntroduction xxi PART 1: CONTROVERSIES REVISITEDSkills and Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator 11The Silenced Dialogue 21Language Diversity and Learning 48PART 2: LESSONS FROM HOME AND ABROADThe Vilis Tokples Schools of Papua New Guinea 77"Hello, Grandfather" 91Teachers' Voices 105Cross-cultural Confusions in Teacher Assessment 135The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse 152Education in a Multicultural Society 167Reflections on Other People's Children HERBERT KOHL 185Teaching the Hard of Head CHARLES M. PAYNE 188Other People's Children: The Lasting Impact PATRICIA LESESNE 193Notes 201Index 215
