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Summary Of White Teacher By Vivian Gussin Paley

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I read White Teacher by Vivian Gussin Paley and was immediately drawn in by her writing style. I also find it easy to relate to her as the proverbial female, middle class, white teacher (or soon to be in my case) and her concerns about whether to draw attention to her students’ differences (would this make it better or worse for that student?) or pretend that there are no differences (is that fair to that student, to the whole class?). The questions she posed in her preface really summed up what I have found myself grappling with in this class: is this classroom in which I live a fair place for every child who enters? Does every child and family have an equal say in the worlds we invent? To write I am getting a better grasp on this feels
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