I found Lisa Delpit's article, Education in a Multicultural Society: Our Future's Greatest Challenge, to be very interesting and one in which can be linked back to my project proposal topic quite nicely. Much of the information within the article deals with issues I intend to look at and write about.
For example, Delpit discusses the clash between students and the teachers and/or school. She makes the observation that African American teachers are more likely to be straight forward and direct when giving directions while white teachers use more indirect commands and their power and authority as the teacher is diminished and lost in the bustle of the classroom.
She also makes the point that for teachers to be effective with the classroom, they must be able to recognize the "importance of student perception." Delpit gave some great examples of situations where the students' needs needed to be accommodated.
The most striking section of the article was on stereotyping which can definitely used as a parallel for my paper. Delpit uses the example of Asian American students and Native American children as example for the stereotypes found in schools today.
Its my goal to look at most of the things which I have listed above and find out how we can change this. Is it us personally and individually who can change it or is it a group of educators collectively?
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