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White Teacher

With a New Preface, Third Edition

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PAPERBACK

$24.00 • £19.95 • €21.50

ISBN 9780674002739

Publication Date: 03/01/2000

* Academic Trade

160 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

World

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Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker’s blind spots. She also vividly describes what her readers have taught her over the years about herself as a “white teacher.”

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