How children learn : getting beyond the deficit myth

Summary: The inspirational stories of young learners in this book discredit assumptions behind recent educational reforms, including high stakes testing and No Child Left Behind policies. The experiences of the American Indian children and the author, a kindergarten teacher, challenge the widely held assumption that minority children enter school "at risk." Deficit theory assumes that minority children are responsible for their failure by cultural deficiency or family ineptitude. Fayden vividly shows how truly equitable treatment of minority children can improve students' inherent abilities to learn and can result in higher achievement for minority and all young children.

Record details

ISBN: 1-59451-105-5
ISBN: 1594511047
ISBN: 9781594511042
ISBN: 1594511055
ISBN: 9781594511059
Physical Description: print
xviii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, ©2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Background -- A Short History of the People -- The Social Construction of Knowledge -- The Children's Pre-History of Writing -- The Emergence of Writing -- Curriculum: Two Kinds of Literacy -- Multiculturalism Enacted: An Equity Pedagogy.