JENNIFER BOWENS NICK CURRAN NINA KRAFT KATIE OLSON EVA TUCKER Educators Who Challenge The Cultural Divide

Sylvia Ashton-Warner “The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.” Born in Stratford, Taranaki. Warner became a student teacher in Willington in Attended Auckland Teachers' College in Wrote her treatise Teacher in Ashton-Warner died on April 28, 1984, in Tauranga

Sylvia Ashton-Warner Contributions: Public work was centered on her teaching, and in particular, with experiments encouraging Maori children to read. Key vocabulary: a set of words with a special meaning relating to their emotional life. Teaching and approach to education are closely linked to her contribution to New Zealand literature.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner Wrote a treatise in 1963 called Teacher includes: techniques she used to teach Maori children. commitment to "releasing the native imagery and using it for working material." belief that communication must produce a mutual response in order to affect a lasting change. Other Writings: Spinster, Incense to Idols (1960), Bell Call (1969), Three (1970), Greenstone (1966), Stories from the River (1986), Myself (1966), I Passed this Way (1979)(NC)

Paulo Freire Educational viewpoint was shaped through his experiences with poverty and culture. Appointed Director of the Department of Education in Appointed director of the Department of Cultural Extension of Recife University in Freire was appointed Secretary of Education for São Paulo in 1988.

Taught 300 sugarcane workers to read and write in just 45 days. Most famous book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, published in He is most well known for concepts such as: - "Banking" Education - "Conscientization” - "Culture of Silence” Paulo Freire Other important concepts include: "Dialectic", "Empowerment", "Generative Themes/Words", "Humanization", "Liberatory Education", "Mystification", "Praxis", " Problematization", and "Transformation of the World.“

Paulo Freire Came up with an educational theory that consisted of 8 parts: Theory of Value Theory of Knowledge Theory of Human Nature Theory of Learning lated Theory of Transmission Theory of Society Theory of Consensus Theory of Opportunity What is Critical Education?

James A. Banks ”Unity without diversity leads to hegemony, and diversity without unity leads to chaos.” 1941-Present

James A. Banks Appointed member of the Task Force to Reevaluate Social Science Textbooks in California (1971). The twenty-ninth annual faculty lecturer at the University of Washington in Received Social Justice in Education Award in 2004 from the AERA. Banks is currently the Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle.

James A. Banks He is a specialist in multicultural education and in social studies education. He defined four major approaches to multicultural curriculum: -contributions approach -additive approach -transformation approach -social action Other books: Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies; Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum and Teaching; Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives; Race, Culture, and Education: The Selected Works of James A. Banks

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