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| The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children | 
 enlarge | Author: Gloria Ladson-billings
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 229825
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 187
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0787903388
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.8996073
EAN: 9780787903381
ASIN: 0787903388
Publication Date: January 15, 1997
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 Dated, weak on causes and solutions of achievement gap March 27, 2004
Gloria Ladson-Billings needs to read No Excuses, Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom. Ladson-Billings' book, Dreamkeepers, is lacking profound impact to the way we think about education and the problems faced in meeting the problems of the minority population of African-Ameican students. It is missing sufficient, current research to support causes and solutions to the achievement gap between African-American students and all other students. Frank, honest dialogue is needed to change the outcomes of the black population. Her book is just more lip service to examples of good teaching that are obvious to most educators. It is neither helpful nor thought-provoking.
 subtle racism August 14, 2003
During the past 40 some years the white race in America has been blamed for societies wrongs. Even whites who have never committed an act of overt or covert racism are a part of the problem; in fact as critical race theory goes the concept of a white Race must be abolished. Feeding on the notion that minorities cant be racist she gleefully states that skin only matters when your black. Somehow black skin has made students and their black teachers into models of openess, kindness, consideration and co-peration (has she visted the D.C schools lately?)....To prove her point that women, esp black feminists, are the only true models of caring. In her so called research she describes 3 (CARING) and experienced female teachers with a young white (boo, hiss) male. Of course the white guy can't win, but not because he is inexperienced, but because he is a white male who uses objective reasoning while the women use the far superior expressive approach (ok chillrenn who can say MF 30 tmes and then divide it by 5?)...This ain't research it's social engineering with an agenda..The same feel good agenda that tells black children that their Egyptian ancestors (not) helped to build the pyramids or that they are decendants of kings and queens....the author's appproach is not differant than that of the slave masters of long ago.
Dream On August 14, 2003
Another book of wishfull thinking and reflective racism all written under the guise of acadamia. The author begins her premise by stating that when she was in school that she could not keep up with white studens because of their competitiveness (read:bad white kids, bad bad)while she had come from an idealic afrocentric school where children learned and produced together (can anyone say Neo-Marxism)...
The majority of her book follows in typical order; Ladson claims that black children make up a unique cultural group whose very presence requirers that we all change our particular world views to fit theirs whether it may be destructive or not.
Ladson's main emphasis is on what she calls Culturally Relevant Teaching; ie., both color and culture do matter. Yet those who supposedly teach that way are just modeling a generic respectfull ethos and not a particular cultural standard as Ladson wants us to believe.
Only in the appendix of the book do we really understand the authors agenda. Guess what? all bad things lead to the white man!!!...Ladson lauds black feminists as "having developed an ethic of caring suggesting that personal emotions, expressiveness and empathy are central to knowledge (read black knowledge) and only black women have this....as for the white male he is dispassionate and objective!! nuff said!!!!
 Teaching African American Children September 23, 2002
Today's urban public schools in the United States are filled with hopeful, eager students who are considered in the racial minority while many of the teachers they will encounter are white and female. In most cases, they do not share the same experiences nor view the world through the same lenses. In some cases, they are worlds apart. Ladson-Billings has constructed a book that provides insights, concepts and ideas that address the bridging of the cultural gap between African American students and teachers assimilated into the majority culture. This book is smart and useful as it addresses what all teachers can do to teach African American children with cultural competence. I strongly recommend this book to parents, prospective teachers, new teachers, veteran teachers and teacher-educators.
Linguistics March 1, 2002
I read this book for an education class, *after* I had already done extensive linguistic study. From a linguistic standpoint, Shirley Brice Heath's book "Ways With Words" is much more effective. Ladson-Billings glosses over the differences between African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Standard American English (SAE). There are vital distinctions between these that are important for any teacher of either dialect to understand! Heath's book is much more comphrehensive regarding both AAVE and SAE and even teaching in a classroom where both are spoken. I heartily recommend Heath; you can take or leave Ladson-Billings and I prefer to leave it.
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