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Title: |
Voices of Foreign-Born African American Teacher Educators in the United States |
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| Edited by: |
Festus E Obiakor, Patrick Grant |
| ISBN10-13: |
1608763226 : 9781608763221 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
155x230mm |
| Pages: |
185 |
| Weight: |
.438 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - May 2010 |
| List Price: |
143.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Education |
| This is a book that exposes silenced and invisible voices in Colleges/Schools of Education. These voices of African immigrants are seldom heard in serious educational quarters since most foreign-born teacher educators try their very best to play by the rules as immigrant minorities. However, they find themselves between cultural continuity and cultural discontinuity. They are pressured to do well by their families in their native countries; but these pressures force them to forget home and think about survival strategies in their new found home. Very often, they do well and at tremendous costs! Additionally, they are expected to be happy and endure all kinds of mistreatments with a smile because they seem to have fewer survival options. On the one hand, they are generally treated as Blacks; and as Blacks, they encounter racist behaviours. On the other hand, they are treated as invisible, primitive, and inferior Blacks who have nothing to share and who are supposed to be seen and not heard. As a consequence, they endure discrimination from both native born African Americans and Whites in America. Interestingly, when they are confident, they are labelled as arrogant, troublemaker, foreigner, chauvinistic, and so on. When they are quiet, they are labelled as incompetent, timid, naïve, unprepared, and so on. The tendency is to forget that they are human-beings with aspirations to do well and contribute to their "new" society, that is, America. The critical question then is, how can they do well or contribute to the advancement of their new society if they are not given opportunities to learn, teach, serve, or grow? |
| Table of Contents: |
| Forward; Preface; Still Searching for Equality in America's Teacher Preparation Programs; Pedagogical Accent in Teacher Education: Narrating Self Within/Against Pedigrees & Stereotypes Of Race & National Origin; Teacher Education Experiences of a Jamaican-Born Professional; Living With Triple Marginality in America's Teacher Preparation Program; Living in Two Worlds: My Voice as a Foreign-Born African; In Search of the Golden Fleece: My Experiences in America's Teacher Education Programs; Lack of Equity in America's Teacher Education Programs: My Voice; "By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them": Perspective of Teaching & Leading in American Programs; Scarcity in the Land Of Goshen: A Personal Story of an Foreign-Born Teacher Educator; My Experiences as a Foreign Born African American in America's Teacher Education Programs; America's Teacher Education: My Turbulent Journey 159; Living in a Luminal Space: Identity Challenges & Opportunities in America's Teacher Preparation Programs; Foreign-Born African Americans with Disabilities in Teacher Preparation Programs; Expanding the Cultural Prisms of Teacher Education: A Foreign-Born African American Perspective; Index. |
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