Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences. Using case studies of educational initiatives on behalf of African American women, Native American children, and the urban poor, Learning Legacies promotes the importance of knowledge grounded in the histories and cultures of the many racial and ethnic groups that have always comprised America's populace, underscoring the value of rich cultural knowledge in pedagogy by illustrating how creative teachers still draw on these learning legacies today.
| ISBN: | 9780472053513 |
| Publication date: | 31st May 2017 |
| Author: | Sarah Robbins |
| Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press an imprint of University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 372 pages |
| Series: | The New Public Scholarship |
| Genres: |
History of education History of the Americas Literature: history and criticism |
Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences. Using case studies of educational initiatives on behalf of African American women, Native American children, and the urban poor, Learning Legacies promotes the importance of knowledge grounded in the histories and cultures of the many racial and ethnic groups that have always comprised America's populace, underscoring the value of rich cultural knowledge in pedagogy by illustrating how creative teachers still draw on these learning legacies today.
Learning Legacies features in the following genres: History of education, History of the Americas, Literature: history and criticism
Learning Legacies is available in Hardback, Paperback
Learning Legacies was written by Sarah Robbins and published by The University of Michigan Press an imprint of University of Michigan Press
Learning Legacies has 372 pages
Yes it is part of The New Public Scholarship series