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Narrative and Experience in Multicultural Education
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May 2005 | 336 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Narrative and Experience in Multicultural Education explores the untapped potential that narrative and experiential approaches have for understanding multicultural issues in education. The research featured in the book reflects an exciting wave of new social science thinking about human experience. The studies focus on the lives of students, teachers, parents, and communities, and bring forward experiences seldom discussed in the literature. The authors are diverse and their inquiries are far ranging in terms of content, ethnic groups studied, geographic locations and other contexts.
The special quality of the work in this book that distinguishes it from other work in multicultural education is the emphasis on understanding experience and transforming this understanding into social and educational significance. This work tends to be less prescriptive and more intensely focused on the meaning of experience from the perspective of individuals and groups. Narrative and Experience in Multicultural Education directly addresses this change both conceptually for thinking about possibilities for multiculturalism, and methodologically for the study of multiculturalism.
JoAnn Phillion, Ming Fang He and F. Michael Connelly
Preface
JoAnn Phillion, Ming Fang He and F. Michael Connelly
Chapter 1: The Potential of Narrative and Experiential Approaches in Multicultural Inquiries
Unit One: Personal Narrative, Community Narrative and the African American Experience
Saundra Murray Nettles
Chapter 2: Examining School-Community Connections Through Stories
Meta Y. Harris
Chapter 3: Black Women Writing Autobiography: Autobiography in Multicultural Education
Unit Two: Latina/Latino Communities, Families, and Children
Alma Rubal-Lopez and Angela Anselmo
Chapter 4: Being Educated in the Absence of Multiculturalism
Sofia A. Villenas
Chapter 5: Between the Telling and the Told: Latina Mothers Negotiate Education in New Borderlands
Unit Three: Social Justice, Equality and the Education of Native Americans
Mary Hermes
Chapter 6: White Teachers, Native Students: Rethinking Culture-Based Education
Donna Deyhle
Chapter 7: Journey Toward Social Justice: Curriculum Change and Educational Equity in a Navajo Community
Unit Four: Multicultural Teacher Education in International Contexts
Lourdes Diaz Soto
Chapter 8: Teachers as Transformative Healers: Struggles With the Complexities of the Democratic Sphere
Freema Elbaz-Luwisch
Chapter 9: How is Education Possible When There's a Body in the Middle of the Room?
Grace Feuerverger
Chapter 10: Multicultural Perspectives in Teacher Development
Unit Five: Narrative Inquiry in Multicultural Education
Carola Conle
Chapter 11: The World in My Text: A Quest for Pluralism
Chris Liska Carger
Chapter 12: The Art of Narrative Inquiry: Embracing Emotion and Seeing Transformation
Unit Six: Democracy, School Life, and Community in Multicultural Societies
F. Michael Connelly, JoAnn Phillion, and Ming Fang He
Chapter 13: Narrative Inquiry Into Multicultural Life in an Inner-City Community School
Janice Huber, M. Shaun Murphy, and D. Jean Clandinin
Chapter 14: Creating Communities of Cultural Imagination: Negotiating a Curriculum of Diversity
Ming Fang He, JoAnn Phillion, and F. Michael Connelly
Chapter 15: Narrative and Experiential Approaches to Multiculturalism in Education: Democracy and Education
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
This book was a little too theoretical for my purposes. Excellent book - but I'd use it more with graduate students than undergrads.
Elementary Education Dept, Kutztown University
April 14, 2015
