Our worlds in our words : exploring race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in multicultural classrooms / Mary Dilg.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Teachers College Press,
[2010], ©2010.
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| Series: | Multicultural education series
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 149 pages . |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction. honoring high standards: reading, writing, speaking, and listening
- In a multicultural classroom
- Context
- Overview
- Of studies and communities, standards and possibilities
- Contemporary society, standards, and a passion for learning in a
- Multicultural world
- Introduction
- Coming together from a divided society: divided neighborhoods/divided
- Lives
- Educating for meaning, educating for skills in a multicultural society
- Meaningful standards in a democratic society
- Conclusion
- Exploring race, culture, and gender through american literature and
- Films: understanding self and others
- Prelude
- Introduction
- Reading for real, reading America
- A journey across america
- Reading across cultures, examining the lives of men and women: a pedagogy
- Of multiculturalism
- Conclusion
- Reading literature and films through the lens of class: breaking taboos
- Examining factors that influence class membership and mobility
- Introduction: class in students' lives/class in art
- Schooling and class
- The power, bonds, and chasms of class though adolescent eyes
- Classed lives in american literature
- A curriculum and pedagogy of class: crossing the lines of class in a classroom
- Teaching about class: dismantling illusions, challenging the bonds of class
- Conclusion
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lives and issues, readings and
- Films: countering invisibility, interrupting the cycle of homophobia
- Prologue
- Introduction: an evolving society/a host of questions
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender american literature: coded lives
- Classics, and best sellers
- Toward openness and clarity: writers, filmmakers, and a high school forum
- Supporting glbt students-supporting all students-in the classroom
- Epilogue
- Conclusion: a place for growing into who we are
- Writing for self and others, writing for life: speaking to journals, making
- Art, building arguments
- Introduction: writing as a tool for observation, exploration, expression, and
- Activism-the freedom to write/the support to succeed
- Writing for the self: speaking to journals
- Writing for others: making art, building arguments
- Writing for a multicultural audience
- A passion for writing in a diverse society
- Conclusion
- A multicultural classroom: a real and precious community.