Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Daryl L. Parks

High School Students' Competing Social Worlds

Negotiating Identities and Allegiances in Response to Multicultural Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 663g
• ISBN-13: 9780805858556
• ISBN-10: 0805858555
• Artikelnr.: 22717272

Autorenporträt

Richard Beach (Author) , Amanda Thein (Author) , Daryl L. Parks (Author)

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Constructing Mediated Identities Across Different Social
Worlds. The Social Worlds Constituting Students' Identities. Fostering
Student Awareness of the Influence of Social Worlds on Characters and
Readers. Critiquing Social Worlds Through Grappling With Dialogic Tensions.
Parks's Methods for Teaching Multicultural Literature. Identity
Construction Congruent With the School World: Corey and Michelle. Identity
Construction Challenging the School World: Devin and Kayla. Identity
Construction and Racial Positioning: Kathy and Mai. Dialogic Tensions in
Classroom Discussions of Love Medicine, Kindred, and Bastard out of
Carolina. Summary and Implications for Teaching Multicultural Literature.
Appendix A: Methods/Analysis/Coding. Appendix B: Literature Used in the
Course and Recommended Literature From the College in the Schools Program.