High School Students' Competing Social Worlds: Negotiating Identities and Allegiances in Response to Multicultural Literature

di Richard Beach (Autore)

Amanda Haertling Thein (Autore)

Daryl L. Parks (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Inc, 2007

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.

• Autore: Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Daryl L. Parks
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Anno: 2007
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 350 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 650 gr.
• EAN: 9780805858556

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