The article that I chose for one of my bibliographies was the Lisa Delpit article posted on the website for suggested reading. In her article, Delpit described five main points in her article about multicultural education and how not to stereotype children of different backgrouds. First off, she stated that a teacher should know how to recognize when there is a problem with for a particular student and how to seek its cause in the most broadly conceived fashion. A student of another race should not be automatically labeled as an "at-risk" student or put into special classes. The teacher should know her students' backgrounds and what their aptitude is before making an decisions about their educational future.
Delpit's five main points of the article were: the cultural clash between students and school, stereotyping, child deficit assumptions that lead to teaching less instead of mor, ignorance of community norms and the "messiah complex" and invisibility. Under each topic, Delpit stressed the idea more of teachers whoe underestimate and stereotype children of different ethnicities. She also gave some examples and a few solutions to these problems in education today.
I think this article is very helpful for my research paper. Delpit highlights some key points of what is wrong when teaching in a multicultural classroom and gives some great offerings to help teachers work through the problem of stereotyping.
Delpit, Lisa. Education in an Multicultural Society: Our Future's Greatest Challenge. Copyright 1992. Accessed 25 March 2007
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