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The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
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The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
Education, like electricity, needs a conduit, a teacher, through which to transmit its power-- i.e., the discovery and continuity of information, knowledge, wisdom, experience, and culture. Through the stories and experiences of eight successful teacher-transmitters, The Dreamkeepers keeps hope alive for educating young African Americans. --ReverAnd Jesse L. Jackson, president and founder, National Rainbow Coalition In this beautifully written book Ladson-Billings illustrates the inspiring influence of...
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"The Dreamkeepers is an immensely important and useful book for teachers and teacher educators...In a creative, credible, and persuasive way, Gloria Ladson-Billings has made a major contribution to the field of multicultural education." (Jaqueline Jordan Irvine, Candler Professor of Urban Education, Emory University)GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS is a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has served on the faculties of Santa Clara University and Stanford University, and has...
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Education, like electricity, needs a conduit, a teacher, through which to transmit its power-- i.e., the discovery and continuity of information, knowledge, wisdom, experience, and culture. Through the stories and experiences of eight successful teacher-transmitters, The Dreamkeepers keeps hope alive for educating young African Americans.
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Books. The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Children
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Explores notion of culturally relevant teach-ing in this invaluable, eye-opening book.
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In the first edition of The Dreamkeepers , Gloria Ladson-Billings examined eight exemplary teachers, their unique styles and methods, and how each affirmed and strengthened the cultural identity of their students. In this updated edition, Ladson-Billings provides a new introduction and conclusion, where she revisits the original teachers profiled and introduces us to a new set of teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. Strengthening her case for culturally relevant teaching, Gloria...
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