| High Schools, Race, and America's Future: What Students Can Teach Us about Morality, Diversity, and Community Contributor(s): Blum, Lawrence (Author), Ladson-Billings, Gloria (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1612504655 ISBN-13: 9781612504650 Publisher: Harvard Education PR OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Multicultural Education - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | Secondary |
| Dewey: 370.117 |
| LCCN: 2012937487 |
| Physical Information: 272 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In High Schools, Race, and America's Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism. Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students' engagement with one another, with a rich and challenging academic curriculum, and with questions that relate powerfully to their daily lives. Blum, an acclaimed moral philosopher whose work focuses on issues of race, reflects with candor, insight, and humor on the challenges and surprises encountered in teaching--the unexpected turns in conversation, the refreshing directness of students' questions, the "aha" moments and the awkward ones, and the paradoxes of his own role as a white college professor teaching in a multiracial high school classroom. High Schools, Race, and America's Future provides an invaluable resource for those who want to teach students to think deeply and talk productively about race. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blum, Lawrence: - Lawrence Blum is the Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education and a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. |