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ERIC Number: EJ679449
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
A Pernicious Silence: Confronting Race in the Elementary Classroom.
Polite, Lillian; Saenger, Elizabeth Baird
Phi Delta Kappan, v85 n4 p274-78 Dec 2003
Argues that teachers must break the pervasive communities of silence about race in primary school classrooms and thus become moral communities. Includes list of books teachers can read aloud with children to stimulate classroom discussions of race. Also includes selected list of references for teachers. (PKP)
Descriptors: Moral Values, Primary Education, Racial Attitudes, Teacher Behavior
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Silence