Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 428.40712 EAN: 9781893056077 ISBN: 1893056074 Label: Calendar Islands Manufacturer: Calendar Islands Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 180 Publication Date: March 01, 2000 Publisher: Calendar Islands Sales Rank: 1764942 Studio: Calendar Islands
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Product DescriptionBecoming (Other)Wise brings home the meaning of multicultural literature education. It examines how teachers and their students can learn to respond to literature about cultural perspectives other than their own. This book brims with instructional strategies and curriculum suggestions for becoming wiser about others and hence ourselves. The authors detail culturally responsive approaches to significant titles, such as Song of Solomon and Things Fall Apart, among others. We listen to transcribed student discussions, read student writing, absorb student and teacher reflections on such matters as race, ethnicity, and gender, for example. While all are approached through the metaphorical world of literature, all are rooted in the reality of increasingly diverse classrooms and communities.
Ruth Vinz (author of the award-winning Composing a Teaching Life) and four contributing teacher-authors move us quickly past the abstractness we associate with multicultural literature pedagogy. They place us in classroom settings, where real kids come to embrace the worlds and lives of others through literary texts. An important, timely work for all secondary English teachers.
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Rating: - Teacher's aide
"Becoming (Other)Wise: Enhancing Critical Reading Perspectives" is that rare book on teaching--a work that manages to combine a discussion of pedagogy seamlessly with sensible, practical methodology that the teacher of English can take right into the classroom.
Rating: - Brilliant
I am a student of Erick Gordon (one of the co-authors of Becoming (Other)wise) at the New York City Lab School. I just wanted to say that the curriculum of the Mockingbird Monologues, based on To Kill a Mockingbird and written by eighth graders is ingenius. The Mockingbird Monologues are a culmination of a year's worth of work which began with reading the book, Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes and then later, reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey. While reading these ... Read More
