Books written by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy

  • Teaching Drama in the Classroom
    Teaching Drama in the Classroom

    This book includes strategies for integrating drama in the classroom through the use of creating characters, giving meaning to activities through answering the questions: who, what, when, where, and why about any person and situation under ...

  • Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students
    Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students

    Content Statement 4 The practice of race based slavery led to the forced migration of Africans to the American colonies. ... Informational Titles Reclaiming African Religions in Trinidad: The Socio-political Legitimation of ...

  • The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
    The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

    In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy take a critical look at the issues of language and dialect in the education system.

  • Racism, Research, and Educational Reform: Voices from the City
    Racism, Research, and Educational Reform: Voices from the City

    Racism, Research, and Educational Reform adds to the knowledge base on educational reform, through individual, personal voices. Describing the complexities of multiple levels of engagement, it provides more accessible reading...

  • Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students
    Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students

    Written by educators from diverse experiences, Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students provides ready-to-use multicultural text sets complete with annotations, instructional activities, and multimedia tools, as well as a ...