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Description
Misaligned Minds is a research-based book in the ethnology of education that examines what happens when teachers and students enter the classroom with fundamentally different expectations about learning, knowledge, and authority. Drawing on global anthropological research and seventy-six true classroom stories from published sources, the book explores how cultural patterns-particularly individualistic and communitarian values, knowledge-focused and learner-focused pedagogies, and analytic and holistic ways of thinking-can create “misaligned minds” that complicate teaching and learning. Written directly to U.S.-based educators, professors, and corporate trainers, it combines seven analytic chapters with four story-rich chapters to deepen understanding while offering practical strategies for transmitting knowledge more effectively to learners from diverse cultural, national, and community backgrounds. Moving beyond the typical focus of multicultural education, Misaligned Minds concentrates on the “hands” of teaching-equipping educators not just to value diversity, but to skillfully navigate the real interpersonal and pedagogical challenges that arise when culturally different students actually show up in their classrooms.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Nineteen true stories surveying the variety of misaligned minds in schools and classrooms
Chapter 2. Six approaches to child socialization and learning other than our own
Chapter 3. Two patterns for getting along with others: Individualistic and communitarian relationships
Chapter 4. Nineteen true stories depicting outcomes of
mixing individualism and communitarianism in schools
Chapter 5. Our American approach to child socialization and learning in historical perspective
Chapter 6. Two pedagogies for transmitting knowledge: Knowledge- and learner-focused instruction
Chapter 7. Nineteen true stories revealing effects of combining
knowledge-focused students with learner-focused teachers
Chapter 8. Four cultural complications not well represented by the seventy-six true stories
Chapter 9. Two perceptions of how the world works: Holistic and analytic patterns of thought
Chapter 10. Nineteen true stories portraying obstacles arising
from differences between holistic and analytic thinking
Chapter 11. Reducing and responding to cross-cultural complications in your classroom
Appendix A. Generalizations about students and teachers in the two classroom cultures
Appendix B. Terms associated with the analytic–holistic distinction
Appendix C. Background regarding the pupils in stories 10.03 and 10.09
Appendix D. Misinformation in multicultural education resources
About the author
References
Endnotes
Product details
| Published | Dec 10 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 9798216466383 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 6 B/W figures. 9 textboxes |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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