You Can't Teach Us if You Don't Know Us and Care About Us

This book addresses the needs of diverse urban students for a new kind of teacher, classroom learning context, curriculum, and pedagogy in order to effectively learn, perform, and achieve.

Autorentext

Omiunota N. Ukpokodu received her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Kansas University and is a Professor of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her teaching and research focus on multicultural teacher education, transformative/equity/social justice pedagogy, social studies, and immigrant education. She is the recipient of the 2011 NAME Equity and Social Justice Advocacy Award and the Fulbright-Hays Scholar (South Africa) Award.

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Acknowledgments Christine Sleeter: Foreword Introduction: The Transforming Power of Education Part I: Toward an Ubuntu Education and Pedagogy for Urban Students: Educating Urban Students for a Multicultural Democracy Ethic of Humanism and Ubuntu Competency Part II: Enacting Ubuntu Pedagogy: Relationship and Community Ethic of Relationship and Learning Community Ethic of Curriculum Humanization Ethic of Instructional/Pedagogical Excellence Ethic of Collaboration and Partnership Conclusion: On Being an Ubuntu Urban Teacher References