Witnessing Whiteness: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture - Couverture rigide

Tochluk, Shelly

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1578867258 ISBN 13 : 9781578867257

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007

Synopsis

Witnessing Whiteness invites educators to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white educators toward ineffective teaching pedagogy and poor relationships with students and colleagues of color. Questioning the implications our history has for educational institutions, school reform efforts, and diversity initiatives, this book considers political, economic, socio-cultural, and legal histories that shaped the meanings associated with whiteness. Drawing on dialogue with well-known figures within education, race, and multicultural work, the book offers intimate, personal stories of cross-race friendships that address both how a deep understanding of whiteness supports cross-race collaboration and the long-term nature of the work of excising racism from the deep psyche. Concluding chapters offer practical information on building knowledge, skills, capacities, and communities that support anti-racism practices, a hopeful look at our collective future, and a discussion of how to create a culture of witnessing educators who support allies for social and racial justice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

An educator, with a background in psychology, Shelly Tochluk spent ten years as a researcher, counselor, and teacher in California's public schools. She now trains educators to work with the diverse Los Angeles school population as an assistant professor of education at Mount St. Mary's College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield Education
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1578867258
• ISBN 13: 9781578867257
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 354
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible