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Author Paley, Vivian Gussin, 1929-2019.

Title Kwanzaa and me : a teacher's story / Vivian Gussin Paley
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (139 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Kwanzaa and Me. A Teacher's Story
Summary All these white schools I've been sent to are racist," Sonya says. "I'd have done better in a black school. I was an outsider here." These are hard words for Vivian Paley, whose own kindergarten was one of Sonya's schools, the integrated classroom so lovingly and hopefully depicted by Paley in White Teacher. Confronted with the grown-up Sonya, now on her way to a black college, and with a chorus of voices questioning the fairness and effectiveness of integrated education, Paley sets out to discover the truth about the multicultural classroom from those who participate in it
This is an odyssey undertaken on the wings of conversation and storytelling in which every voice adds new meaning to the idea of belonging, really belonging, to a school culture. Here are black teachers and minority parents, immigrant families, a Native American educator, and the children themselves, whose stories mingle with the author's to create a candid picture of the successes and failures of the integrated classroom. As Paley travels the country listening to these stories, we see what lies behind recent moves toward self-segregation: an ongoing frustration with racism as well as an abiding need for a nurturing community. And yet, among these diverse voices, we hear again and again the shared dream of a classroom where no family heritage is obscured and every child's story enriches the life of the schoolhouse
"It's all about dialogue, isn't it?" asks Lorraine, a black third-grade teacher whose story becomes a central motif. And indeed, it is the dialogue that prevails in this warmly provocative and deeply engaging book, as parents and teachers learn how they must talk to each other, and to their children, if every child is to secure a sense of self in the schoolroom, no matter what the predominant ethnic background. Vivian Paley offers these discoveries to readers as a starting point for their own journeys toward community and kinship in today's schools and tomorrow's culture
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Subject Paley, Vivian Gussin, 1929-2019
SUBJECT Paley, Vivian Gussin, 1929-2019 fast
Subject African American children -- Education (Preschool)
Children of minorities -- Education (Preschool) -- United States
Multicultural education -- United States
Fantasy in children.
Teacher-student relationships -- United States
EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Children of minorities -- Education (Preschool)
Fantasy in children
Multicultural education
Teacher-student relationships
Intercultureel onderwijs.
Rassendiscriminatie.
Kinderen.
Zwarten.
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674041875
0674041879