Revealing the Invisible: Confronting Passive Racism in Teacher Education (Teaching/Learning Social Justice) - Softcover

Marx, Sherry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041595343X ISBN 13: 9780415953436

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

This book examines and confronts the passive and often unconscious racism of white teacher education students, offering a critical tool in the effort to make education more equitable. Sherry Marx provides a consciousness-raising account of how white teachers must come to recognize their own positions of privilege and work actively to create anti-racist teaching techniques and learning environments for children of color and children learning English as a second language.

About this title

About the Author

Sherry Marx is Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education and ESL Education at Utah State University. Her dissertation won two AERA Outstanding Dissertation awards: Division D Methodology and Division G Social Context of Education.

Review

"Drawing from data she collected through participant-observations, interviews , and journal entries, Marx engages her readers with an articulate style, an honest tone, and a skillful use of her participants’ narratives which she seamlessly weaves through the book...Even though racism remains difficult to address, Marx provides a much needed blueprint for teacher educators to follow by highlighting seven steps...[that exemplify] how critical reflection and praxis are effective means of countering the invisible and passive racism that pervade our schools."--Soria E. Colomer, Education Review (April 2009)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 041595343X
• ISBN 13: 9780415953436
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208