Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice

by Richard R. Valencia

Book Overview

Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It "blames the victim" for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students and students of color from learning. Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to this oppressive theory by framing the linkages between prevailing theoretical perspectives and contemporary practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415877105
• ISBN13: 9780415877107
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.8"