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This important new book provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to the oppressive theory of deficit thinking in education.



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Winner of the 2011 AERA Outstanding Book Award

Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association



Table of Contents
  1. The Construct of Deficit Thinking

  3. Neohereditarianism: Pseudoscientific Explanations for Racial Differences in Intelligence

  5. Ruby Payne’s Mindsets of Poverty, Middle Class, and Wealth: A Resurrection of the Culture of Poverty Concept

  7. At-Risk Students or At-Risk Schools?

  9. Deconstructing Deficit Thinking: Practical Solutions for Teacher Educators, Educational Leaders, and Educational Ethnographers

  11. Conclusion: (A) The Bankruptcy of the Standards-Based School Reform Movement; (B) Towards the Construction of Meaningful School Reform: Democratic Education

Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 4 June 2010
      ISBN-13 9780415877107
      978-0415877107
      ISBN-10 0415877105
      Also in:
      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This important new book provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to the oppressive theory of deficit thinking in education.



      Trade Review

      Winner of the 2011 AERA Outstanding Book Award

      Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association



      Table of Contents
      1. The Construct of Deficit Thinking

      3. Neohereditarianism: Pseudoscientific Explanations for Racial Differences in Intelligence

      5. Ruby Payne’s Mindsets of Poverty, Middle Class, and Wealth: A Resurrection of the Culture of Poverty Concept

      7. At-Risk Students or At-Risk Schools?

      9. Deconstructing Deficit Thinking: Practical Solutions for Teacher Educators, Educational Leaders, and Educational Ethnographers

      11. Conclusion: (A) The Bankruptcy of the Standards-Based School Reform Movement; (B) Towards the Construction of Meaningful School Reform: Democratic Education

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