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An introduction to some publications that have shaped the field of education.

 

Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education
by Sonia Nieto

Scholars and Publications
that have proven to be influential

as identifed by Sonia Nieto


Sonia Nieto, 2014

 

Influential individuals and publications during writing of Affirming Diversity


Sonia Nieto with Paulo Freire, 1982


Paulo Freire: all his publications as well as personal contact during his yearly visits to UMass/Amherst in the early 1980s.

Professor Bob Suzuki’s classes at UMass and his publications. Although Bob published only a handful of articles related to multicultural education before taking on major administrative positions at a number of universities in California, his articles were seminal pieces in the field.

Schooling in Capitalist America by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (1976). Sam and Herb were professors of economics at UMass/Amherst and they used the page proofs from their groundbreaking publication as the course text in a course on the political economy of education.

Maxine Greene’s articles from the 1970s and 1980s.

Class, Bureaucracy, and the Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America by Michael Katz (1975).


Sonia Nieto, 2014

Publications in the field of education that have been most influential:
Freire, Paulo (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Seabury Press.

Banks, J. A. (Ed.) (1973). Teaching Ethnic Studies: Concepts and Strategies. 43rd Yearbook of the National Council for the Social Studies. Washington, DC: National Education Association.

Cummins, J. (1989). Empowering Minority Students. Sacramento, CA:  California Association for Bilingual Education.

Spindler, G. D. (1982). Doing the Ethnography of Schooling: Educational Anthropology in Action. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.

Suzuki, B. (1979). Multicultural education: What’s it all about? Integrated Education, 17 (1-2), 22-50.

Publications that all educators should read:
Bowles, S. & Gintis, H. (1976). Schooling in Capitalist America. New York: Basic Books.

Fine, M. (1991). Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Seabury Press.

Goodlad, J. (1984). A Place Called School. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Kozol, J. (1991). Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. New York: Crown.

Oakes, J. (1985). Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality. New Haven: Yale University Press.

 
   

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