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Writing the School House Blues - Literacy, Equity, and Belonging in a Child's Early Schooling (Paperback)
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Writing the School House Blues - Literacy, Equity, and Belonging in a Child's Early Schooling (Paperback)
Series: Language and Literacy Series
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Anne Dyson confronts race and racism head-on with this ethnographic
study of a child's efforts to belong-to be a child among children.
Follow the journey of a small Black child, Ta'Von, as he moves from
a culturally inclusive preschool through the early grades in a
school located in a majority white neighborhood. Readers will see
Ta'Von encountering obstacles but finding agency and joy through
writing and music-making, especially his love of the blues. Most
attempts at desegregating schools are studied by reducing
individual children to demographic statistics and test scores. This
book, instead, provides a child's perspective on challenges to
classroom inclusion. Ta'Von's journey demonstrates that it is
within children's peer worlds-formed in response to institutional
policies and practices like desegregation initiatives, standardized
testing, and a curricular focus on so-called "basic literacy
skills"-that inequity becomes part of the experience of childhood.
This book examines policies about literacy testing and teaching,
including the potential power of the written word and of the
arts.Book Features: A fresh approach to issues of inclusion,
equity, and learning opportunities as seen through a child's eye.
Narrative vignettes that bring to life the equity issues of
everyday school experiences. An overview of the kinds of challenges
to inclusion that may be faced by minoritized children in
majority-dominated schools. Details about changing institutional
literacy policies and practices over time and grade level,
emphasizing their impact on relationships and learning. Examples of
teachers and children enacting inclusive communities.
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