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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition

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Author: Lisa Delpit
Creator: Herbert Kohl
Publisher: New Press
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8

ISBN: 1595580743
Dewey Decimal Number: 379
EAN: 9781595580740
ASIN: 1595580743

Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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Thought provoking March 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I enjoyed this book but was looking for something that would give me insight into how to bridge the culture gap between my upper middle class European-American perspective and my predominantly inner city, impoverished, African-American elementary age students. Although the book gave me some very valuable and thought provoking insight into what Black educators feel children from this cultural and socio-economic background ultimately need to achieve academically and what the parents of my students are hoping their children will gain from their education, the content was not what I was really looking for at this time: a roadmap for overcoming the resistance of my students to learning and how to motivate a desire to learn from their needs and desires rather then their parent's or my own. I plan to come back to the book later because the information it contains is valuable but at this point in my (new) teaching career I need insight into how to capture the cooperation and attention of my students and convince them what I have to offer is important and of value to them personally.br /br /Much more along the line of what I was looking for is a book suggested by a colleague: a framework for UNDERSTANDING POVERTY BY Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.br /

5 out of 5 stars

YES! February 12, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I love this book! It has explained a lot of things I always hated about school. I majored in (Post)-Colonial English lit. for a lot of the reasons this book specifies. We all get sick of hearing the same language all the time. PCEL is almost all authors of different colors and cultures than the traditional dead white men. I really felt that Delpit reminded us why we travel and why we want to see other parts of existence and gave us a new way to do that without leaving home. I loved sharing this book with the other teachers in my house.

5 out of 5 stars

Good March 24, 2006
1 out of 19 found this review helpful

This book arrived in perfect condition, on time, and it was interesting as well!

5 out of 5 stars

Other People's Children was Transformative October 28, 2005
27 out of 27 found this review helpful

I am a teacher and a Ph.D. student in education, and of all of the hundreds of articles and books I've read about education, Other People's Children has been one of the most useful, both in terms of my intellectual development and also in practical, common-sense classroom strategies. If you are an educator who is ready to stop blaming your students' parents for everything your students do wrong and who is ready to start asking what YOU can do to help your students achieve more, this book is an excellent choice for where to start.br /br /Of particular interest were sections describing how well-intentioned teachers (not "the enemy" as another reviewer grossly mischaracterized) often enact policies that end up handicapping students who come from different backgrounds. Delpit describes the policies and the good intentions that led to them but also what the unintended consequences were and suggestions for how to deal with those consequences. Other helpful topics include descriptions of cultural differences in communication styles that can lead to conflict and how to address those, how to value your students' home cultures and still prepare them to succeed in the majority culture, and how to talk with your students about the social and political realities of being a minority in a majority culture.br /br /I can't state strongly enough how this book transformed my thinking about teaching. I am no longer content to pathologize my students' home cultures, throw my hands in the air in despair, and say that there's nothing I can do. This book won't give you fool-proof recipes for success, as none exist; it offers descriptions of what her suggestions look like in practice. In fact, this book may raise more questions for you than it answers. If you're an educator looking to move forward, however, the questions raised are definitely worth the effort.

4 out of 5 stars

The Problems Behind Teaching Black Children October 23, 2005
15 out of 17 found this review helpful

Delpit pulvarizes us with her brick-hard words about how teachers (both Black and White) must re-negotiate and re-align their paradigms regarding how to plan to teach minority children, especially those whose native tongue differs from English.br /br /Please read this book carefully and do not allow her remarks (some of which may sound racist to Whites) get in the way of the main idea: all teachers of all colors need to understand how to improve literacy for minorities.

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