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Views from Inside - Languages, Cultures, and Schooling for K?12 Educators (Hardcover)
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Views from Inside - Languages, Cultures, and Schooling for K?12 Educators (Hardcover)
Series: Literacy, Language, and Learning
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The goal of this text is to help teachers in diverse classrooms
understand the importance of students' culture, languages, and
schooling experiences to curriculum, assessment, and student
achievement. Readers will learn about aspects of specific cultures
and languages that are important to their understanding of their
students, and they will discover that cultures that are often
considered similar may not be so (and why they aren't). Finally,
the text focuses on how teachers can integrate languages and
cultures into classrooms and how to account for students'
backgrounds and funds of knowledge when devising tasks. The text
starts with an introduction to language and culture that presents a
research?based explanation of why these concepts are important for
teachers to understand (Chapter 1). Then, the middle 28 chapters
each address one country/culture. Each chapter starts with a school
scenario in the US. Part 2 of each chapter includes evidence?based
demographic and background data on the country, including
historical events that may have an impact on our students and their
families. Part 3 includes a look at education, schooling, and
culture, including famous people, contributions to the world,
personal characteristics, important religious information, focal
customs, and other aspects that are important to cultural insiders.
Part 4 is about language and literacy traditions and how they
relate to the culture, a number of words that teachers can learn
(e.g., yes, no, thank you, please, hello), how the language is
different from and similar to English, and what those differences
and similarities might mean for English language learners from that
culture. Part 5 comprises advice, resources, and ideas for teachers
(for example, if it is an oral culture, the teacher might consider
working with students on oral storytelling before transitioning to
written stories, or incorporate both using technology). Each
chapter also contains recommended readings and resources and short
exercises that extend the chapter information. The final chapter
presents parting notes for teachers and additional suggestions for
addressing diversity.
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