The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities

Nieto, professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, applies Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy to multicultural education in this exploration of how the school experience can be improved for marginalized students, bicultural students, and students of color. Each chapter interweaves written responses by the author's education students and student teachers. This 10th anniversary edition contains a new prologue, in which Nieto addresses the current sociopolitical context of society and education, touching on the influence of poverty on learning, and the impact of No Child Left Behind. A new epilogue focuses on the implications addressed in the book for education today, and reviews recent work on culturally responsive pedagogy. The epilogue concludes with an update, in their own words, on the former education students whose journal entries are included in the first edition. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)