Other People's Children Cultural Conflict In The Classroom Lisa Delpit Summary

In Lisa Delpit’s book titled Other People's Children Cultural Conflict In The Classroom, she in her introduction discusses how our country’s meaningless procedure in public schools have unchallenged our children’s minds, leaving nothing but unthinking objects. Delpit reaches this conclusion because by pointing out the strict focus on standardized test scores that have led to the vacuousness in education. In addition, Delpit expresses how the multicultural voices in education are being tamed by those in power. In other words, Delpit is responding to the country’s pedagogy that emphasizes more on scripted lessons, policies that make test score the most important aspect in learning, and the distorted attitudes toward those who are darker or from

Moreover Delpit also talks about structuring her argument into three parts. The first part of the book will discuss the popular approaches to teach literacy, and show reader the importance of valuing the culture of every student in the classroom. Next, the second part will mention Delpit’s journey of how she learned to see the world through different lenses with the experiences she had with different students. Additionally, in the second part she also discusses the problems of teachers of colors entering and remaining in that profession. Ultimately, the last part focuses on offering thoughts on solutions and directions for the future of educators. Furthermore, in the introduction of Delpit’s book she talks about how she approached to respond to the issue of pedagogy in the classroom and the twisted attitudes towards “other people’s children,” by having a specific audience in mind as she wrote the book. She especifically tells us that she directs this book to teachers to influence them on teaching literacy to disfranchised students, in other words, students of color or minorities. Also Delpit presents recommendations to policymakers addressing the issues of cultural differences in the