Inside City Schools: Investigating Literacy in Multicultural Classrooms

Inside City Schools: Investigating Literacy in Multicultural Classrooms
ISBN-10
0807738409
ISBN-13
9780807738405
Category
Education
Pages
294
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Author
Sarah Warshauer Freedman

Description

Here, a national team of teacher researchers address the difficult issues of race and ethnicity in the classroom. Experienced English and social studies teachers from four multicultural settings -- Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco -- grapple with how best to meet the literacy learning needs of an increasingly diverse school population. They deal with a variety of real issues within a culturally responsive framework, such as: -- Confronting issues of race and ethnicity in literature, within classrooms, and in a larger community -- Helping students deal with neighborhood violence and conditions of poverty -- Designing a multicultural curriculum -- Creating an emotionally safe classroom -- Fostering peer relations among faculty members.

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