High School Students' Competing Social Worlds - Negotiating Identities and Allegiances in Response to Multicultural Literature (Paperback)

This book examines how working-class high school students ' identity construction is continually mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. Specifically, it addresses how responding to cultural differences portrayed in multicultural literature can serve to challenge adolescents ' allegiances to status quo discourses and cultural models, and how teachers not only can rouse students to clarify and change their value stances related to race, class, and gender, but also provide support for and validation of students ' self-interrogation.
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Highlighting the influence of sociocultural forces, the book contributes to understanding the role of institutions in shaping adolescents ' lives, and identifies needs that must be addressed to improve those institutions. Current theory and research on critical discourse analysis, cultural models theory, and identity construction is meshed with specific applications of that theory and research to case-study profiles and analysis of classroom discussions. The instructional strategies described enable pre-service and in-service teachers to develop their own literature curriculum and instructional methods.

General

Imprint:	Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Richard Beach • Amanda Haertling Thein • Daryl L. Parks
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	350
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-5855-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of ethnic minorities Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Secondary schools > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8058-5855-5
Barcode:	9780805858556

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