Culture or Chaos in the Village

Chapter 1: Racial Identity Development: You are Here!
Chapter 2: Mediation framework and teacher education dynamics
Chapter 3: Brown Girl in the Ring
Chapter 4: The Three R's: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic or Race, Relationship, and Reflection
Chapter 5: But They Don't Speak English: Mapping Out How We Teach Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
Chapter 6: The State of School-Based Speech-Language Pathology in Teacher Education:Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Chapter 7: Lead, Follow of Get out of the Way: Cultural Mediation, Social Justice and Educational Leadership
Chapter 8: Are We There Yet? Culture, Communication and Relationship: Making it to the Village
Chapter 9: The Family Reunion: Community and the Journey
Chapter 10: Pardon the Policy: Unpacking the Standards

As an educator of pre-service teachers, it is my goal, my responsibility, my personal and moral obligation to lift the veil of ignorance —to expose my students to the reality of our ever-changing United States. While having the desire and the necessity may be one thing, having the curriculum is another. Each semester I am forced to create my own curriculum, blending a variety of resources to best inform my students. Culture or Chaos in the Village: The Journey to Cultural Fluency is a long, overdue anthology providing the fodder necessary to stimulate a critical reflection and dialogue in the pre-service teacher classroom. For the sake of future generations, we must indeed 'prepare teachers for real world experiences that will manifest into maximized triumphs and minimized tragedies.'