Bøker av Sonia Nieto

A must-read for new teachers and seasoned practitioners, this book presents Sonia Nieto and Alicia Lopez, mother and daughter, writing about the trajectories, vision, and values that brought them to teaching, including the ups and downs and the reasons why they have remained in one of the most difficult, and most rewarding of professions.

Nieto and Lopez document their reasons for becoming teachers and share some of the most important lessons they have learned along the way. Using journals, blogs, current writings, and their research, they explore how their views on curriculum, pedagogy, and the field of education itself have evolved over the years.

Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, this text illustrates: real-life dilemmas about diversity that teachers face in their own classrooms; ideas about how language, culture, and teaching are linked; and, ways to engage with these ideas.

From newly minted teachers terrified of facing their first day in the classroom to seasoned academics whose work has been inspired by Freire, this collection, accompanied by photographs of Freire with some of the letter writers, is both a memorial and a call to action to work for social justice, praxis, and democracy.

Reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. This title focuses on the significant role of teachers in transforming students' lives. It also examines the importance of student and teacher voice in research and practice.

What helps great public school teachers persevere - in spite of everything? Sonia Nieto, a teacher educator, takes a close look at what can be learned from veteran teachers who not only continue to teach but also manage to remain enthusiastic about it.