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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Written by Lisa Delpit
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Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award and Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine's "great books," Other People's Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne.
In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better "cultural transmitters" in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system.
In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better "cultural transmitters" in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system.
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Lisa Delpit
Lisa Delpit is the Felton G. Clark Professor of Education at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she lives. She is the author of Other People's Children and "Multiplication Is for White People", and the co-editor of The Skin That We Speak (all published by The New Press).
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book. Delpit outlines how some publishers profit from the exploitation of schools which serve minority populations. She also details the lack of and need for, teacher training for students within these populations. It is an essential read for administrators and educators, as they struggle to serve this population of students and help them to close the achievement gaps which exist.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An absolute must for teacher education! A fresh observant perspective!