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Ladson-Billings, Gloria – Teachers College Press, 2021
For the first time, this volume provides a definitive collection of Gloria Ladson-Billings's groundbreaking concept of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP). After repeatedly confronting deficit perspectives that asked, "What's wrong with 'those kids?,'" Ladson-Billings decided to ask a different question, one that fundamentally shifted the…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Disadvantaged, Learning Processes
Baines, Janice; Tisdale, Carmen; Long, Susi – Teachers College Press, 2018
Filled with day-to-day literacy practices, this book will help elementary school teachers understand their role in dismantling the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Chapters take readers into classrooms where they will see, hear, and feel decolonizing and humanizing culturally relevant pedagogies as students learn literacy and a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods
Schmidt, Patricia Ruggiano, Ed.; Lazar, Althier M., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This readable book features K-12 teachers and teacher educators who report their experiences of culturally responsive literacy teaching in primarily high poverty, culturally nondominant communities. These extraordinary teachers show us what culturally responsive literacy teaching looks like in their classrooms and how it advances children's…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
Winn, Maisha T. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This original account is based on the author's experiences with incarcerated girls participating in "Girl Time", a program created by a theatre company that conducts playwriting and performance workshops in youth detention centers. In addition to examining the lives of these and other formerly incarcerated girls, "Girl Time" shares the stories of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Playwriting, Females, Program Effectiveness
Kinloch, Valerie – Teachers College Press, 2009
In her new book, Valerie Kinloch investigates how the lives and literacies of youth in New York City's historic Harlem are affected by public attempts to gentrify the community. Kinloch draws connections between race, place, and students' literate identity through collaborative interviews between youth, teachers, longtime black residents, and…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, African Americans, Literacy, Neighborhoods