Books by Sonia Nieto

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.