Brilliant Teaching: Using Culture and Artful Thinking to Close Equity Gaps
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- DO I, OR DO I NOT, TAKE THIS PICTURE? -- WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT? -- TO WHOM AM I SPEAKING? -- Part One Culturally Responsive Artmaking Teaching -- Chapter 1 What Does It Mean to Think Like an Artist? -- What Is Artmaking? -- Let's Begin at IKEA . . . Yes, You Read That Correctly-IKEA -- Artmaking and Philosophizing . . . -- Craft -- Social Learning -- Defining Culture -- Culture and Learning -- Social Transmission -- Environmental Niches and Cultural Inheritance -- Culture Matters -- Notes on Artmaking: Influence and Inspiration -- Chapter Notes -- Chapter 2 Defining Equity . . . and the Problem of Fairness -- A Problem of Fairness -- Equity in Education Is . . . -- Measured by Outputs -- Defined by Purpose . . . -- Brown v. Board -- The Beginning of an Era -- Quality and Effective -- The Coleman Study (1966) -- Inequality -- The Clarification of Equity -- Difference ≠ Deficits -- Achievement -- Difference Interpretations and Deficit Ideologies -- Are All "Men" Created Equal? -- What Schools Can Do -- Notes on Artmaking: The Heart of Equity -- Chapter Notes -- Chapter 3 Shifting Paradigms -- Equity Problems of Practice -- Mentalizing -- Community -- Race -- But What Can I Do? -- Nonstarters -- Essentializing -- Using the Knowledge of Race to Empower Students -- The Limitations of Violence -- Notes on Artmaking: Layered Methodologies -- Chapter Notes -- Chapter 4 Artmaking-As an Equity Issue -- What Does It Mean to Understand? -- The concept of ❤ -- The Cognition Core Hypothesis -- Analogy Is the Engine of Thinking -- Culture, Context, and Personal Cognitive Styles -- The Role of Culture Relative to Achievement -- Cultural Identity -- A Note on Gene-Culture Coevolution/Dual Inheritance Theory -- All Learning (and Intelligence) Is Cultural-What's Worth Understanding?.