商品簡介
Teaching should never be colorblind. In a world where many believe the best approach toward eradicating racism to be feigned ignorance of our palpable physical differences, a few have led the movement toward convincing fellow educators to not only consider race but to use it as the very basis behind their instructional choices. This is what education activist and writer Pamela Lewis has set upon to do in her book,Faking Sleep: Teaching While Black In New York City Public Schools. As the title suggests, embracing blackness in the classroom can be threatening to many, thus almost impossible to perform in the presence of others.
Chronicling her own educational journey which has its roots in New York City public schools in North Bronx, Lewis, with a chip on her shoulder and a yearning for more, eventually steps out of her comfort zone and into the foreign white world of academia, first as a student at a private and prestigious university, and ultimately as a teacher of inner-city students in a profession where teachers of color only comprise twenty percent of the population. There, she battles surviving in a climate that does not welcome the way she believes children of color learn best. Faking Sleep: Teaching While Black In New York City Public Schools, summons all to self-examine what good teaching looks like in the inner city. It is an awakening meant to disrupt all that we believe we know about education and race today.
作者簡介
Pamela Lewis is a teacher in the New York City Department of Education. She has also written and published an article entitled, "Black Sheep" in theBronx County Historical Journal, and is in the process of completing her first fiction novel,The House of Smoke and Mirrors. A graduate a Fordham University, she studied closely under Mark Naison.
