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Bridging Cultures between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers
Author:
Elise Trumbull,
Carrie Rothstein-Fisch,
Patricia M. Greenfield,
Blanca Quiroz
Bridging Cultures offers an antidote to many of the problems that plague U.S. public schools. … the authors advocate changing teachers’ ways of thinking, one teacher at a time, and how teachers relate to their constituents, one constituent at a time. After all, the authors suggest, education occurs within human relationships. Shouldn’t the focus of reform be on those relationships?
Educational HORIZONS®
Summer 2002
Reviewed by Benjamin H. Welsh
Foundations of Education
Ball State University
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Teaching students from a range of cultural backgrounds is made easier when teachers understand the cultural norms of both the mainstream culture of schools and the cultures of their students. This guide provides a framework for learning about culture, along with many teacher-created strategies for making classrooms more successful for students, particularly those from immigrant Latino backgrounds.
Contents of the guide include chapters that describe the Bridging Cultures framework of individualism/collectivism for understanding cultures, why parent involvement is not always successful plus some ways to improve working with parents, the cross-cultural parent-teacher conference, learning what works cross-culturally through teacher research with ethnography as a research tool, and a reflection on the Bridging Cultures project (a collaboration among WestEd; UCLA; California State University, Northridge; and bilingual public school teachers in three districts).
Two adjunct books of supporting research, theories, background information, and teaching modules are also available. Please visit Bridging Cultures Teacher Education Module and Readings for Bridging Cultures for more information.
Product Reviews
Audience: Teachers, Teacher Educators
Product Information
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Copyright: 2001
Product #: LCD-01-01
Pages: 184
Price: $27.95
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