Making a Difference About Difference - The Lives and Careers of Racial Minority Immigrant Teachers

Published Under the Garamond Imprint

">Making a Difference About Difference examines the lives and careers of racial minority teachers and their struggle to negotiate their differences in the workplace. Their stories highlight the challenges they face in preparing their students for the ever-changing multicultural world in which they live.

The book focuses on their enduring pulls between home and homeland, their rediscovery of who they are and what they want for their lives and careers, their emerging cultural and political orientation to teaching, and their efforts to create a different place in which students and teachers can work and learn.

Dennis Thiessen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at Ontario Institute for Studies and Education, University of Toronto

Nina Basica is a Professor in the Department of Theory & Policy Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Ivor F. Goodson is Professor of Learning Theory at the Education Research Centre, Mayfield House, University of Brighton.