The Evolution of Deficit Thinking
Educational Thought and Practice
Published on 11. March 1997
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-0-7507-0664-3 (ISBN)
Description
Deficit thinking refers to the notion that students, particularly low income minority students, fail in school because they and their families experience deficiencies that obstruct the leaning process (e.g. limited intelligence, lack of motivation, inadequate home socialization). Tracing the evolution of deficit thinking, the authors debunk the pseudo-science and offer more plausible explanations of why students fail.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7507-0664-3 (9780750706643)
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03/1997
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Person
Richard R. Valencia
Content
Chapter 1 Conceptualizing the Notion of Deficit Thinking, Richard R. Valencia; Chapter 2 Early Racist Discourses: The Roots of Deficit Thinking, Martha Menchaca; Chapter 3 Genetic Pathology Model of Deficit Thinking, Richard R. Valencia; Chapter 4 Deficit Thinking Models Based on Culture: The Anthropological Protest, Douglas E. Foley; Chapter 5 Cultural and Accumulated Environmental Deficit Models, Arthur Pearl; Chapter 6 Contemporary Deficit Thinking, Richard R. Valencia, Daniel G. Solorzano; Chapter 7 Democratic Education as an Alternative to Deficit Thinking, Arthur Pearl; Chapter 8 Epilogue: The Future of Deficit Thinking in Educational Thought and Practice, Richard R. Valencia, Arthur Pearl; contrib; Notes on Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;