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Eating On The Street - Teaching Literacy in a Multicultural Society (Paperback, New Ed)
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Eating On The Street - Teaching Literacy in a Multicultural Society (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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During a field trip in Detroit on a summer day in 1989, a group of
African American fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-graders talked,
laughed, and ate snacks as they walked. Later, in the
teacher\u2019s lounge, Jeanetta, an African American teacher chided
the teachers, black and white, for not correcting poor black
students for \u201ceating on the street,\u201d something she saw as
stereotypical behavior that stigmatized students. These thirty
children from Detroit\u2019s Cass Corridor neighborhood were
enrolled in the Dewey Center Community Writing Project. Taught by
seven teachers from the University of Michigan and the Detroit
public schools, the program guided students to explore, to
interpret, and to write about their community. According to David
Schaafsma, one of the teachers, the \u201ceating on the
street\u201d controversy is emblematic of how cultural values and
cultural differences affect education in American schools today.
From this incident Schaafsma has written a powerful and compelling
book about the struggle of teaching literacy in a racially divided
society and the importance of story and storytelling in the
educational process. At the core of this book is the idea of
storytelling as an interactive experience for both the teller and
listener. Schaafsma begins by telling his own version of the
\u201ceating on the street\u201d conflict. He describes the history
of the writing program and offers rich samples of the
students\u2019 writing about their lives in a troubled
neighborhood. After the summer program, Schaafsma interviewed all
the teachers about their own version of events, their personal
histories, and their work as educators. Eating on the Street
presents all of these layered stories - by Schaafsma, his
collegues, and the students - to illustrate how talking across
multiple perspectives can enrich the learning process and the
community-building process outside the classroom as well. These
accounts have strong implications for multicultural education
today. They will interest teachers, educational experts,
administrators, and researchers. Uniting theory and practice,
Eating on the Street is on the cutting edge of pioneering work in
educational research.
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