1st Edition
Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking Educational Thought and Practice
By Richard R. Valencia
Copyright 2010
248 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It "blames the victim" for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students and students of color from learning. Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to this oppressive theory by framing the linkages between... Read more
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- Neohereditarianism: Pseudoscientific Explanations for Racial Differences in Intelligence
- Ruby Payne’s Mindsets of Poverty, Middle Class, and Wealth: A Resurrection of the Culture of Poverty Concept
- At-Risk Students or At-Risk Schools?
- Deconstructing Deficit Thinking: Practical Solutions for Teacher Educators, Educational Leaders, and Educational Ethnographers
- Conclusion: (A) The Bankruptcy of the Standards-Based School Reform Movement; (B) Towards the Construction of Meaningful School Reform: Democratic Education
Biography
Richard R. Valencia is Professor of Educational Psychology and Faculty Associate of the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas, Austin.
Winner of the 2011 AERA Outstanding Book Award
Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association
