(NAME-MCE) New Book - Diversity and the New Teacher: Learning from Experience in Urban Schools

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*Diversity and the New Teacher: Learning from Experience in Urban Schools

* by Catherine Corbleth

Ordering Information: http://store.tcpress.com/080774896X.shtml

Multicultural Education Series
Pub Date: July 2008, 192 pages

*Paperback:* $27.95, ISBN: 080774896X
*Cloth:* $62, ISBN: 0807748978

"This book is an antidote to Hollywood's fictional hero-teacher who drops
into the ghetto, quickly turns everything around, and then leaves. By
focusing on real-life new teachers, it shows the hard work, culture shock,
trauma, satisfaction, and life-affirming possibilities experienced by people
who choose to work with inner-city minority youth."
—*Alan Singer*, Hofstra University

"As always, Cornbleth provides a clear, cogent, and compelling look at the
problems but more importantly she zeros in on the solutions. This is a
volume that will find a welcome home on every teacher educator's bookshelf."
—*Gloria Ladson-Billings*, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

"*Diversity and the New Teacher* is an engaging wake-up call for teacher
educators. Through lively portraits of student teachers in a typical
university-based program, Cornbleth perceptively teases out patterns in the
sense they make of urban youth, and then clearly spells out key changes that
are warranted in teacher preparation."
—*Christine Sleeter*, Professor Emerita, California State University,
Monterey Bay

In this extraordinary volume, veteran teacher educator and internationally
respected scholar Catherine Cornbleth examines one of the most challenging
issues for new teachers—how to effectively teach a diverse student
population. Cornbleth weaves the voices and experiences of student teachers
from urban elementary and high schools into her own analysis. She invites
new and prospective teachers (especially white teachers from middle-class
homes) to draw on these experiences to explore how to work more
constructively with students different from themselves, and to succeed in
schools different than their own. She also speaks to teacher educators about
their role in preparing new teachers to face increasing diversity in public
schools.

Featuring vignettes and interviews throughout, this book:

   - Offers in-depth descriptions of the issues white student teachers
   confront as they teach in urban settings.
   - Provides insight and advice to help strengthen relationships between
   racially, socioeconomically, and culturally dissimilar students and
   teachers.
   - Examines the successes and failures teachers experience when engaging
   diverse groups of students in meaningful academic learning.

*Catherine Cornbleth* is Professor of Professor of Education at the Graduate
School of Education, University at Buffalo, SUNY.