Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Conceptualizing the Notion of Deficit Thinking, Richard R. Valencia; Chapter 2 Early Racist Discourses: The Roots of Deficit Thinking, Martha Menchaca; Chapter 3 Genetic Pathology Model of Deficit Thinking, Richard R. Valencia; Chapter 4 Deficit Thinking Models Based on Culture: The Anthropological Protest, Douglas E. Foley; Chapter 5 Cultural and Accumulated Environmental Deficit Models, Arthur Pearl; Chapter 6 Contemporary Deficit Thinking, Richard R. Valencia, Daniel G. Solórzano; Chapter 7 Democratic Education as an Alternative to Deficit Thinking, Arthur Pearl; Chapter 8 Epilogue: The Future of Deficit Thinking in Educational Thought and Practice, Richard R. Valencia, Arthur Pearl; contrib; Notes on Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;

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Richard R. Valencia