1st Edition

Freedom's Plow Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom

Edited By Jim Fraser, Theresa Perry Copyright 1993

    Freedom's Plow is the first volume designed to provide teachers and teachers-in-training with the practical resources they need to make their teaching practice and classrooms more multicultural. Parts II and III present the voices and experiences of teachers from first grade to college level who are actually engaged in multicultural teaching efforts. The contributors examine what redefining their practice as multicultural has meant for their work in terms of content, pedagogy, power and indeed their own attitudes and values. The volume concludes by focusing on the power arrangements, perspectives and personnel policies needed if schools are to emerge as truly multicultural, multiethnic democracies.

    Part 1 Multicultural Education; Chapter 1 Reconstructing Schools as Multiracial/Multicultural Democracies, Theresa Perry, James W. Fraser; Part 2 The Practice of Multicultural Education; Chapter 2 Different Ways of Seeing, Linda Mizell, Susan Benett, Bisse Bowman, Laraine Morin; Chapter 3 Classroom Tapestry, Judith J. Richards; Chapter 4 The Blind Men (Women) and the Elephant, Sandra Dickerson; Chapter 5 Transformative Pedagogy and Multiculturalism, bell hooks; Chapter 6 Multicultural Teacher Introspection, Nitza M. Hidalgo; Part 3 Developing the Curriculum of Multicultural Education; Chapter 7 Promises, Pitfalls, and Principles of Text Selection in Curricular Diversification, Sau-ling C. Wong; Chapter 8 Beyond Island Boundaries, Edna Acosta-Belén; Chapter 9 In Search of Asia through Music, Susan Asai; Chapter 10 African American Children's Literature, Violet J. Harris; Chapter 11 The Passions of Pluralism, Maxine Greene; Chapter 12 To Fight Swimming with the Current, Ceasar L McDowell, Patricia Sullivan; Part 4 School Structures that Foster Multicultural Education; Chapter 13 One Step Among Many, Kathy Greeley, Linda Mizell; Chapter 14 Afrocentric Immersion, Peter Murrell; Chapter 15 I Am Still Thirsty, lmani Perry; Chapter 16 Choice for the Chosen, Robert Lowe; Chapter 17 The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse, Lisa D. Delpit;

    Biography

    Jim Fraser, Theresa Perry