Multicultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom: Approaches, Strategies, and Tools, Preschool-2nd Grade
Multicultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom: Approaches, Strategies, and Tools, Preschool-2nd Grade
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Overview
This unique book features an array of approaches, strategies, and tools for teaching multiculturally in the early years. The teachers and classrooms portrayed here provide young children with rich educational experiences that empower them to understand themselves in relation to others. You will see how amazing teachers engage in culturally responsive teaching that fosters educational equity while also meeting state and national standards (such as the Common Core State Standards). This engaging book is sprinkled with questions for reflection and implementation that encourage educators to start planning ways of enhancing their own teaching, making their early childhood setting a more equitable learning space.
Book Features:
- Multicultural education in action,including the everyday issues and tensions experienced by children and their families.
- Powerful vignettes from diverse Head Start, preschool, kindergarten, 1st- and 2nd-grade classrooms throughout the United States.
- Sections on “Getting Started” and “Considering Obstacles and Exploring Possibilities” in each chapter.
- A list of multicultural children’s books and resources for further reading.
Chapters:
- Multicultural Tools and Strategies for Teaching Young Children
- Multicultural Education as Transformative Education
- Interviews: Encouraging Children to Ask Questions
- Critical Inquiry: Supporting Children’s Investigations
- Culture Circles with Multicultural Literature: Addressing Issues of Fairness
- Community Resources and Home Literacies: Developing Funds of Knowledge
- Technology: Media(ting) Multicultural Teaching
- Storytelling and Story Acting: Creating Spaces for Children to Negotiate Change
- Reflecting on the Possibilities of Teaching Multiculturally: What Next? What If?
Mariana Souto-Manning is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University.
“A profound, rich, and rewarding meditation and deep conversation with teachers fully engaging young children with culture, social history, and learning for the future. This wide-ranging book escapes temporal, spatial, and disciplinary boundaries. Read it and reflect on how you can take it into your own life of learning.”
—Shirley Brice Heath, Professor Emerita, Stanford University
“Early childhood educators will experience this unique book as a warm and detailed invitation to engage in multicultural education. The emphasis throughout is on “multi”—multiple pedagogical approaches, from culture circles to podcasts to story acting, and multiple cultural heritages embodied by active children and teachers. From a critical perspective and alongside creative teachers who aspire to be transformative, Souto-Manning links accessible theory with rich and thoughtful practices.”
—Celia Genishi, Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
“Mariana Souto-Manning’s Multicultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom rightly places the use of deficit thinking and ineffective teaching strategies in the wasteland of classroom instruction. The author superbly documents and explains ways of teaching multiculturally that will richly benefit the learning of all students and make teaching become the fun that teachers dreamed it would be when they first said, ‘I want to teach because I love kids.’”
—Carl A. Grant, Hoefs-Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Multicultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom encourages teachers to honor, affirm, and challenge even our very youngest children to think inclusively, critically, and democratically—a necessity if we are to help develop knowledgeable, caring, and empowered learners.”
—Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807771457 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Teachers College Press |
| Publication date: | 05/07/2013 |
| Series: | Early Childhood Education Series |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 535,945 |
| File size: | 841 KB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
1 Multicultural Approaches, Strategies, and Tools for Teaching Young Children 1
What Is Multicultural Education? 2
The Context of Multicultural Education 5
Doing Multicultural Education 7
Looking Ahead 9
2 Multicultural Education as Transformative Education 11
The Progression of Interrelated Transformation 11
A Critical Approach to Multicultural Curriculum and Teaching 15
Students and Teachers as Cultural Beings 17
An Invitation: Carefully Considering Approaches, Strategies, and Tools 21
3 Interviews: Encouraging Children to Ask Questions 23
Why Interviews as a Strategy for Teaching Multiculturally? 24
Ways to Use Interviews 25
Getting Started 26
Considering Obstacles, Exploring Possibilities 30
Enacting Interviews in an Early Childhood Setting 31
Reflecting on Interviews as a Strategy for Teaching Multiculturally 39
Further Resources 40
4 Critical Inquiry: Supporting Children's Investigations 41
Why Critical Inquiry as a Strategy for Teaching Multiculturally? 41
Ways to Engage in Critical inquiry 42
Getting Started 43
Considering Obstacles, Exploring Possibilities 44
Enacting Critical Inquiry in an Early Childhood Setting 45
Reflecting on Critical Inquiry as a Strategy for Teaching Multiculturally 54
Further Resources 54
5 Culture Circles with Multicultural Literature: Addressing Issues of Fairness 56
Why Culture Circles as a Way of Teaching Multiculturally? 57
Ways to Use Culture Circles with Multicultural Literature 58
Getting Started 59
Considering Obstacles, Exploring Possibilities 60
Enacting Culture Circles with Multicultural Literature in an Early Childhood Setting 64
Reflecting on Culture Circles as a Way of Teaching Multicutturally 72
Further Resources 73
6 Community Resources and Home Literacies: Developing Funds of Knowledge 74
Why Community Resources and Home Literacies as Tools for Teaching Multiculturally? 74
Ways to Use Community Resources and Home Literacies 76
Getting Started 77
Considering Obstacles. Exploring Possibilities 79
Bringing Community Resources and Home Literacies into an Early Childhood Setting 80
Reflecting on Community Resources and Home Literacies as Tools for Teaching Multicutturally 87
Further Resources 87
7 Technology: Media(ting) Multicultural Teaching 89
Why Technology as a Tool for Mediating Multicultural Teaching? 89
Ways to Use Technology 90
Getting Started 91
Considering Obstacles. Exploring Possibilities 92
Bringing Technology into an Early Childhood Setting 95
Reflecting on Technology as a Tool for Mediating Multicultural Teaching 101
Further Resources 102
8 Storytelling and Story Acting: Creating Spaces for Children to Negotiate Change 103
Why Storytelling and Story Acting as Strategies for Teaching Multiculturally? 103
Ways to Use Storytelling and Story Acting 104
Getting Started 105
Considering Obstacles, Exploring Possibilities 108
Enacting Storytelling and Story Acting in an Early Childhood Setting 109
Reflecting on Storytelling and Story Acting as Strategies for Teaching Multiculturally 114
Further Resources 115
9 Reflecting on the Possibilities of Teaching Multiculturally: What If? What Next? 116
Now What? Considering Possibilities 117
Creating "Wiggle Room": From a Teacher's Perspective 122
Devising a Plan to Get Started 128
Creating Spaces for Teaching Multiculturally 129
Children's Books 131
References 135
Index 143
About the Author 154
What People are Saying About This
“This book escapes temporal, spatial, and disciplinary boundaries. Read it and reflect on how you can take it into your own life of learning.”—Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University
“Early childhood educators will experience this unique book as a warm and detailed invitation to engage in multicultural education. The emphasis throughout is on “multi”—multiple pedagogical approaches, from culture circles to podcasts to story acting, and multiple cultural heritages embodied by active children and teachers. From a critical perspective and alongside creative teachers who aspire to be transformative, Souto-Manning links accessible theory with rich and thoughtful practices.” —Celia Genishi,Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
“Mariana Souto-Manning’s Multicultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom rightly places the use of deficit thinking and ineffective teaching strategies in the wasteland of classroom instruction. The author superbly documents and explains ways of teaching multiculturally that will richly benefit the learning of all students and make teaching become the fun that teachers dreamed it would be when they first said, ‘I want to teach because I love kids.’” —Carl A. Grant, Hoefs-Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Multicultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom encourages teachers to honor, affirm, and challenge even our very youngest children to think inclusively, critically, and democratically—a necessity if we are to help develop knowledgeable, caring, and empowered learners.” —Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst