This book chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers - children of
gang members, drug users, poor people, and non-documented and
documented immigrants - in a rural school in the southwest US
coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those
voices in a variety of venues, beginning with the classroom
community and spreading outward.
At the heart of this book is the cultivation of tension between
official and unofficial portraits of these students. Official
portraits are composed of demographic data, socioeconomic data, and
test results. Unofficial counterportraits offer different views of
children, schools, and communities. The big ideas of official and
unofficial portraits are presented, then each chapter offers data
(the children's and teachers' processes and products) and facets of
the theoretical construct of counterportraits, as a response to
official portraits. The counterportraits are built slowly in order
to base them in evidence and to articulate their complexity.
Many teachers and soon-to-be teachers facing the dilemmas and
complexities of teaching in diverse classrooms have serious
questions about how to honor students' lives outside of school,
making school more relevant. This book offers evidence to present
to the public, legislators, and the press as a way of talking back
to official portraits, demonstrating that officially failing
schools are not really failing - evidence that is crucial for the
survival of public schools.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2009 |
First published: |
2010 |
Authors: |
Richard J. Meyer
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
312 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-87123-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
General
|
LSN: |
0-415-87123-9 |
Barcode: |
9780415871235 |
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