Teacher Training and the Education of Black Children: Bringing Color into Difference

by Uvanney Maylor

Book Overview

This book is designed to challenge dominant educational discourses on the underachievement of Black children and to engender new understandings in initial teacher education (ITE) about Black children's education and achievement. Based in empirical case study work and theoretical insights drawn from Bourdieu, hooks, Freire, and Giroux, Maylor calls for Black children's underachievement to be (re)theorised and (re)conceptualised within teacher education,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138286915
• ISBN13: 9781138286917
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"