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- Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives for a New Century
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Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives for a New Century (Volume in the Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)
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Tremendous cultural and linguistic diversity is evident in our schools today. This text by one of today's best-known and most highly respected multicultural educators presents examples of real-life dilemmas about diversity that teachers will face in their own classrooms; ideas about how language, culture, and teaching are linked; and ways to engage with these ideas through reflection and collaborative inquiry. A thoughtful integration of articles and book chapters published by Dr. Nieto along with creative pedagogical features, Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives for a New Century:
*explores how language and culture are connected to teaching and learning in educational contexts;
*examines the sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts of language and culture to understand how they may affect student learning and achievement;
*analyzes the implications of linguistic and cultural diversity for school reform and educational equity;
*encourages critical reflection on classroom practices related to linguistic and cultural diversity; and
* offers in each chapter critical questions to help readers build on the knowledge they have gained by analyzing the concepts further; classroom activities that provide suggestions for applying what they have learned to their own teaching context; and community activities suggesting projects beyond the classroom context, in settings ranging from the school or district to the state or national level.
New times deserve new textbooks that engage teachers in viewing students' cultural and linguistic differences in a more hopeful and critical way, and in changing classroom practices and school policies to promote the learning of all students. Although no easy answers are available to fix the problems and uncertainties teachers encounter every day, there are thoughtful ways to address them that respect teachers' and other educators' professionalism, honor the identities of students and their families, and validate the nation's claim to educate students of all backgrounds. The aim of this text is to help practicing and preservice teachers accomplish these goals.
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Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives for a New Century .......2007-01-11
The book offers a different perspective on the "language" debate in schools. It provides more insight and background.
A Peak Into Critical Literacy With A Cultural Edge.......2006-04-24
Bringing over 30 years to the topic of bilingual education, Nieto meticulously takes langauge and language learning apart by revealing it as a organ for cultural expression. To expand a child's literacy, to teach them the cummunicative value of language,--especially in a bilignual way--, a teacher and a school must develop an accepting, affirming philosophy. They must listen to students and bolster their solidarity as a cultural of students and as cultures of students by abandoning the traditional ESL or TESOL models. Teachers must strive to understand the linguistic concepts of second langauge acquisition in order to best instill literacy in their students.
All of those concepts require frequent revisits of this book. It reads quite well, but stay frosty. If you skim too much, you will miss a valuable nugget of information. I suggested reading the book in whatever order that you wish the second time because you will fine that each chapter can stand alone once you understand her primary thesis. Also, read it in small pieces while you teach your children about literacy (especially early childhood teachers). Then you will know how to apply it with much more fluidity within your teaching philosophy.
Please enjoy!
Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives for a New Century .......2005-09-12
As promised, the book was in excellent condition and arrived fast.
Thanks for a wonderul service.
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Thoughtful and well-designed anthology........2001-06-09
The book is great in providing several opinions on a particular unit studied. This way students (who are most often the readers of this book) get more than just a biased opinion. The context sections that follow the main text provide readers with additional information on the subject as well as the ideas for writing compositions. Furthermore, the book incorporates very well many diverse subjects including psychology, history of the Western Frontier,sex and gender, as well as several others. It contains many contemporary authors and provides the students with examples of different writing styles. In other words it's a great book for an English class or even for future reference and ideas.
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Includes 20 competencies/skills found on the CST Literacy test and 125 sample-test questions. This guide, aligned specifically to standards prescribed by the New York Department of Education, covers the sub-areas of Foundations of Literacy; Reading Instruction and Assessment; and the Role of the Literacy Professional.
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Literacy.......2007-01-12
This book was wonderful. I am in NY and there are a lot of state tests. This book helped me to quickly identify the major areas to study. The review section was concise and specific, and the author gave a lot of excellent examples. It made studying for the Literacy exam a breeze. If any one wants to ace that exam then buy this book to help you review. This book is also good as a reference book to easily find other major theorist in the education field.
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Necessary!.......2007-09-18
I am a freshman instructor, so I know first hand how sheltered my students are when they first come to college. After reading "Cool Like Me" by Alexander in my old reader, most of my students believed that the author was "racist," which is a horrible misunderstanding. Freshmen cannot, literally, think outside the box. They need readings like these to open their eyes and begin to think critically. I am now going to use this book in my class, and I encourage other freshmen composition teachers to follow.
Not a book for your average Joe American.......2007-07-19
First of all, I can't believe all the people who are leaving negative ratings for this book for being BIASED. HELLO?? This book is BIASED? How about mainstream America? We live in an extremely BIASED society and this book attempts to challenge, and even subvert such biased cultural/social norms that continue to empower the upper-class White males while marginalizing the rest--lower-middle class, minorities, women, homosexuals, etc--the powerless, the voiceless, and the deprived. We live in a patriarchal society that attempts to keep its hegemonic social/cultural structure in order to maintain this "BIASED" order and this book is trying to UNDO such ways of thinking, and clearly not trying to perpetrate such biases itself. If you can call the voices of marginalized people "BIASED," you should definitely go back to college and take some more classes in sociology, literature, ethnic studies, and women's studies, and hopefully you will learn to use YOUR OWN critical thinking abilities to view this world, not simply regurgitating what has been taught by previous "teachers." This book is not lashing out against ALL dominant groups, but rather, pointing to the underlying social, cultural, and racial problems in our society that clearly do exist. As the editors of this text aptly writes, in order to be able to appreciate the contents of this book you must acknowledge the simple fact that "institutionalized forms of oppression such as racism and sexism clearly exist" in our society. If you believe that we live in a "color-blind" society where everyone has equal rights and opportunities to succeed, you must be living on a different planet or simply closing your eyes, ears, and hearts to all the problems that exist in our society today. This book is NOT meant for those of you who believe that we live in a Utopian society. But if you're ready to start thinking "critically," even if it means undoing the things that you've been taught from K-12th grade..you're in for a great ride. This text is not a book against "White" people by leftists- now that'll be a simple, dualistic way of thinking. This society is much more complex and intricate and in order to move forward, you must transcend such binaries. If you can't see that from this book..please keep your ignorant comments to yourselves.
On a brighter note, this text is filled with interesting and eye-openining articles and I plan on teaching this in my own freshman composition class. We have a very diverse campus here in Southern California with people from all over the world (all of different colors, backgrounds, and social class) and I believe that it is important for college students to learn to transcend all the boundaries that has been placed by those in power. There is nothing wrong with hearing voices from historically silenced and oppressed people and if you're resistant to such idea, do not bother opening this book because you will get nothing out of it.
As a college instructor, this book WILL require careful planning, revising, and even altering lesson plans as you move into the quarter/semester to best suit your students' needs and expectations. You may run into some resistance and there may be some heated debates that arise from certain discussions depending on the backgrounds of your students. But if you're an instructor like me, who wishes to empower students rather than stifle their growths as individuals by putting yourself (the "teacher")at the center of your curriculum, I believe that this book is a great start. Of course it's always much easier to teach your students what to think and how to think by agreeing with the status quo---but does that actually help your students to "think critically" and "read analytically"?? I would think not.
One star is too much for this book!.......2006-12-03
I took a class and was required to read this book. It was the worst book I have ever HAD to read! I struggled to finish the reading assignments. This book was so biased I couldn't believe it. Once again America is the root of all evil, and the white man is the devil. The authors need to take another look at America, and see that there is some good going on here! Only someone that is so miserable and bitter would believe (or write) this book. They had nothing good to say about America...if it is so bad here, why don't they move (and take along anyone that agrees with them).
Maybe it's just me...........2005-06-08
I'm confused by the reviewers who label this book as leftist propaganda. Sure, it has essays by Michael Moore, Susan Faludi and others who have raised a few hackles, but these articles can be placed in context with other articles both in the textbook itself and on the online guide.
I am using this book in a comp course, and I have to say that from my years of teaching, many students *do* need to have a few hackles raised, to be challenged in their beliefs, at least at my predominantly white middle class college....
Even if you disagree with some of the viewpoints presented in this textbook (and if you didn't disagree with ANY of them, then it really would be a politicalthink primer, wouldn't it?), isn't one of the goals of teaching composition to teach *critical thinking and reading*? My students seem to have no problem either with being 'brainwashed' into the alleged left wing ideology of the book, or with picking apart the obvious snowjobs. They are excited to read articles that are somewhat relevant to their lives, and from people who are currently big (Moore, Medved, Kilbourne, Tannen) in their fields. Most of my students have had 18 years of experience being brainwashed by the media, and this book offers plenty of choices of opinions, and plenty of *different ones* that the students really have to think for themselves.
Oh, and for the record, I'm a Republican. Extra weird how *I* don't see the vast liberal conspiracy in this book.
A great text for challenging students to think critically..........2005-01-21
I have used this book several times now, and while I have had a few neo-conservative students (like those writing the more scathing comments here) who have initially bristled at the more left-leaning readings, those same students are happy to find that voices from their world (i.e. Michael Medved, Danielle Crittenden) are also represented. In fact, these students have left my class stating that the book surprised them, got them to think about these issues from different perspectives. While it certainly didn't turn them into activists for the left, it did get them to think more critically about the propaganda they are fed from ALL sides of the political spectrum, and it also helped them to decipher solid argument from fallacy-driven writing.
The reason I chose to use this book was that I wanted a text that gracefully integrated voices from a multitude of class, race, gender, and political standpoints. This text does just that. We don't just hear from dead white guys and a few token voices of color and gender. Rather, we hear from people of all different lived experiences--everyone from Dan Rather to June Jordan.
The editors also include some helpful tips for using this book in a composition classroom, which many instructors who are wary of using such controversial material will find useful.
Most composition instructors want to help their students think for themselves, to avoid simply parroting what their favorite pundits and talk radio hosts say, and this book, by challenging what we consider norms in our culture, helps to accomplish that by challenging American cultural myths from all sides of the political and social spectrum. However, if you don't like your class discussions to become heated, and if you are scared of ruffling students' feathers, I would recommend a different book. Actually, The Arlington Reader provides a number of similar readings with a much less politically-charged context.
Overall, however, I find this book to be a gem amidst the many cultural readers out there.
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Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book. It is a rich account of the author's investigation of teacher book club discussions of ethnic literature, specifically ethnic autobiography--as a genre from which teachers might learn about culture, literacy, and education in their own and others' lives, and as a form of conversation and literature-based work that might be sustainable and foster teachers' comprehension and critical thinking. Dr. Florio-Ruane's role in the book clubs merged participation and inquiry. For this reason, she blends personal narrative with analysis and description of ways she and the book club participants explored culture in the stories they told one another and in their responses to published autobiographies. She posits that autobiography and conversation may be useful for teachers not only in constructing their own learning about culture, but also, by doing so, in participating in the transformation of learning within the teaching profession.
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Brian Street's volume investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. These largely ethnographic essays bring together anthropological and linguistic work written over the past ten years by anthropologists and sociolinguists. Accounts of literacy practices vary from one context to another, and challenge the view that literacy is a single, uniform skill, essential to functioning in a modern society. The conclusions reached will be crucial for future researchers, and of interest to educators, developers and practitioners in the field.
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Language as Cultural Practice:
Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas. This account illustrates a variety of cases where language is used by speakers to choose between alternative self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories, such as ethnicity, gender, and class. It shows that language socialization--instantiated in language choices and patterns of use in sociocultural and sociohistorical contexts characterized by ambiguity and flux--is both a dynamic and a fluid process.
The study emphasizes the links between familial patterns of language use and language socialization practices on the one hand, and children's development of bilingual and biliterate identities on the other. Using a framework emerging from their selection of two geographically distinct localities with differing demographic features, Schecter and Bayley compare patterns of meaning suggested by the use of Spanish and English in speech and literacy activities, as well as by the symbolic importance ascribed by families and societal institutions (such as schools) to the maintenance and use of the two languages.
Language as Cultural Practice:
*provides a detailed account of the diversity of language practices and patterns of use in language minority homes;
*offers educators detailed information on the language ecology of Latino homes in two geographically diverse communities--San Antonio, Texas, and the San Francisco Bay Area, California;
*shows the diversity within Mexican-American communities in the United States--families profiled range from rural families in south Texas to upper middle class professional families in northern California;
*provides data to correct the prevalent misconception that maintenance of Spanish interferes with the acquisition of English; and
*contributes to the study of language socialization by showing that the process extends throughout the lifetime and that it is an interactive rather than a one-way process.
This book will particularly interest researchers and professionals in linguistics, anthropology, applied linguistics, and education, and will be useful as a text in graduate courses in these areas that address language socialization and learning.
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