Speaking the Unpleasant
The Politics of (non)Engagement in the Multicultural Education Terrain
Published on 30. April 1998
Book
Hardback
338 pages
978-0-7914-3757-5 (ISBN)
Description
Discusses the issue of engagement, and nonengagement, of students in multicultural education programs.
Reviews / Votes
"This volume creates a multicultural education dialog by and for teachers. The chapters address personal and institutional reflections that continuously probe into pre-and inservice students' tacit knowledge and mystified historicity that ideologically shape their understandings of culture, ethnicity, race, class, gender and sexual orientation, as well as other socially constructed and hegemonically ridden realities like oppression and the 'isms.'" - From the Introduction by Rudolfo Chavez Chavez and James O'Donnell"As a teacher and a scholar, I found Speaking the Unpleasant to be highly engaging because it addresses tensions, frustrations, and bursts of success that are all inherent in my own work. Readers will find this volume extremely helpful for its naming of the problem of (non)engagement, its discussions of how (non)engagement manifests itself in various educational contexts and why, and the varied strategies colleagues use to attempt to engage students, preservice teachers, and inservice teachers with social issues." - From the Preface by Christine E. Sleeter
"Speaking the Unpleasant courageously addresses an issue that is absolutely central to the struggle for a critical multiculturalism, yet one that has been largely ignored by critical educators. The reason why so many students and teachers refuse to acknowledge and resist relations of exploitation should be of fundamental concern to all criticalists in the field of education. The editors of the volume have greatly advanced our understanding of this issue and as a result have advanced the cause of critical multiculturalism in new and important ways. This is a volume that needs to be read." - Peter L. McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-3757-5 (9780791437575)
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Persons
At New Mexico State University Rudolfo Chavez Chavez is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and James O'Donnell is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. Chavez Chavez has also written Multicultural Education in the Everyday: A Renaissance for the Recommitted, and coedited The Leaning Ivory Tower: Latino Professors in American Universities (also published by SUNY Press) and Ethnolinguistic Issues in Education. O'Donnell has coedited Learning and Unlearning Racism: Multicultural Education Revisited.
Content
Acknowledgements
Preface
Christine E. Sleeter
Foreword: Tongue-Tying Multiculturalism
Donaldo Macedo
Introduction: Speaking the Unpleasant
1. Engaging the Multicultural Education Terrain: A Holographic Montage for Engagers
Rodolfo Chavez Chavez
2. From Claiming Hegemony to Sharing Space: Creating Community in Multicultural Courses
Sonia Nieto
3. Mediating Curriculum: Problems of Nonengagement and Practices of Engagement
Beverly Cross
4. Engaging Students' Re-Cognition of Racial Identity
James O'Donnell
5. Toward a Just Society: Recalibrating Multicultural Teachers
Lynne T. Diaz-Rico
6. Fostering Engagement: Barriers in Teacher Education
Gaile S. Cannella
7. Confessions of a Methods Fetishist: Or, the Cultural Politics of Reflective Nonengagement
Mark Dressman
8. Upstream in the Mainstream: Pedagogy against the Current
Robert E. Bahruth and Stanley F. Steiner
9. Engaging Special Education Practitioners with Language and Culture: Pitfalls and Challenges
Jozi De Leon, Catherine Median, and Robert Ortiz
10. Exploring the Use of History in Multicultural/Multilingual Teacher Education
Kip Tellez and Sharon O'Malley
11. The Struggle for Cultural Self: "From Numb to Dumb"
Susan M. Rumann
12. Challenging Privilege: White Male Middle-Class Opposition in the Multicultural Education Terrain
Robert Smith
13. Moving Off Center: Engaging White Education Students in Multicultural Field Experiences
Carolyn R. O'Grady
14. Identity and Engagement in Multicultural Education
Betsy J. Cahill and Eve M. Adams
15. Lowering the Shields: Reducing Defensiveness in Multicultural Education
Diane J. Goodman
16. (E)strange(d) Relations: Psychological Concepts in Multicultural Education
Nancy Lesko
17. Teaching Within/Against the Backlash: A Group Dialogue about Power and Pedagogy in the 1990s
Gary L. Anderson, Mary Bentley, Bernardo Gallegos, Kathryn Herr, and Elizabeth Saavedra
References
About the Contributors
Index
Preface
Christine E. Sleeter
Foreword: Tongue-Tying Multiculturalism
Donaldo Macedo
Introduction: Speaking the Unpleasant
1. Engaging the Multicultural Education Terrain: A Holographic Montage for Engagers
Rodolfo Chavez Chavez
2. From Claiming Hegemony to Sharing Space: Creating Community in Multicultural Courses
Sonia Nieto
3. Mediating Curriculum: Problems of Nonengagement and Practices of Engagement
Beverly Cross
4. Engaging Students' Re-Cognition of Racial Identity
James O'Donnell
5. Toward a Just Society: Recalibrating Multicultural Teachers
Lynne T. Diaz-Rico
6. Fostering Engagement: Barriers in Teacher Education
Gaile S. Cannella
7. Confessions of a Methods Fetishist: Or, the Cultural Politics of Reflective Nonengagement
Mark Dressman
8. Upstream in the Mainstream: Pedagogy against the Current
Robert E. Bahruth and Stanley F. Steiner
9. Engaging Special Education Practitioners with Language and Culture: Pitfalls and Challenges
Jozi De Leon, Catherine Median, and Robert Ortiz
10. Exploring the Use of History in Multicultural/Multilingual Teacher Education
Kip Tellez and Sharon O'Malley
11. The Struggle for Cultural Self: "From Numb to Dumb"
Susan M. Rumann
12. Challenging Privilege: White Male Middle-Class Opposition in the Multicultural Education Terrain
Robert Smith
13. Moving Off Center: Engaging White Education Students in Multicultural Field Experiences
Carolyn R. O'Grady
14. Identity and Engagement in Multicultural Education
Betsy J. Cahill and Eve M. Adams
15. Lowering the Shields: Reducing Defensiveness in Multicultural Education
Diane J. Goodman
16. (E)strange(d) Relations: Psychological Concepts in Multicultural Education
Nancy Lesko
17. Teaching Within/Against the Backlash: A Group Dialogue about Power and Pedagogy in the 1990s
Gary L. Anderson, Mary Bentley, Bernardo Gallegos, Kathryn Herr, and Elizabeth Saavedra
References
About the Contributors
Index