Multicultural Literature and Literacies: Making Space for DifferenceSuzanne M. Miller, Barbara McCaskill State University of New York Press, 1993 M10 5 - 300 pages Does literature serve a humanizing function? Can it achieve social transformation? What roles does literature play for defining self, creating community, and achieving global perspective? This is the first book to thoroughly explore the methods by which educators, creative writers, and policymakers have constructed workable models of teaching literature in multicultural classrooms. The authors provide an interdisciplinary dialogue on the setbacks, solutions, silences, and successes that often occur in classes of multicultural literature. They all take the stance that definitions of literacy and literature originate as much outside the classroom as within it. With the inclusion of essays by writers themselves—a feature provided by no other book on this subject—the authors offer a unique vocalization of the nationalistic, economic, empowering, and moral purposes that reading and writing serve. The book also includes a current guide to selected resources in multicultural literature, in hopes of encouraging and facilitating instructors in the transformation of their own literature courses into multicultural ones. |
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... strategies for resisting the backlash against this cultural inclusion , and your insights on issues of global literacy and curricular change have guided us in advising our contributors and generating a framework for this book . The ...
... strategies for resisting the backlash against this cultural inclusion , and your insights on issues of global literacy and curricular change have guided us in advising our contributors and generating a framework for this book . The ...
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... strategies , program philosophies , aesthetics and poetics , and research agendas that have arisen from the debates on multicultural literature and literacies . Our volume emerged from dialogues which began at the Fourth Gutenberg ...
... strategies , program philosophies , aesthetics and poetics , and research agendas that have arisen from the debates on multicultural literature and literacies . Our volume emerged from dialogues which began at the Fourth Gutenberg ...
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... strategic reconsideration of texts . Similarly , the policymakers herein reflect upon the roles that literature has played in privileging American economic and political orders . They posit making room for multicultural literatures as ...
... strategic reconsideration of texts . Similarly , the policymakers herein reflect upon the roles that literature has played in privileging American economic and political orders . They posit making room for multicultural literatures as ...
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... strategies . All herein would seem to agree that refining the meaning of multicultural society and making space for difference involve recon- sidering social histories and institutional hierarchies and reevaluating the exclusive ...
... strategies . All herein would seem to agree that refining the meaning of multicultural society and making space for difference involve recon- sidering social histories and institutional hierarchies and reevaluating the exclusive ...
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... strategies by suggesting that teachers scrutinize definitions of literary artifacts and cultural identity , and she suggests that university teachers must investigate constraints on the status of literatures and cultures within the ...
... strategies by suggesting that teachers scrutinize definitions of literary artifacts and cultural identity , and she suggests that university teachers must investigate constraints on the status of literatures and cultures within the ...
Contents
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Literacy and Empowerment | 37 |
A Stamp on the Envelope Upside Down Means Love | 77 |
The Ideology of Canons and Cultural Concerns | 105 |
Suzanne K Sutherland | 129 |
Reading against the Cultural Grain | 163 |
Some Notes on the Canon and Multiculturalism | 179 |
The Teachers Perspective | 187 |
Questions of Pedagogy and Multiculturalism | 205 |
Multicultural Literacy in a Middle School Writing Workshop | 219 |
Why a Dialogic Pedagogy? Making Space for Possible Worlds | 247 |
Selected Resources for Multicultural Education | 267 |
About the Editors | 270 |
Contributors | 289 |
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