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

Name: High School Students' Competing Social Worlds Negotiating Identities and Allegiances in Response to Multicultural Literature
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ISBN: 9780805858556

ISBN-10: 0805858555

ISBN-13: 9780805858556

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Daryl L. Parks

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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. & nbsp; Highlighting the influence of sociocultural forces, the…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.30" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990



Preface


Acknowledgments



Constructing Mediated Identities across Different Social Worlds



The Social Worlds Constituting Students' Identities



Responding to 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 Three Novels



Summary and Implications for Teaching Multicultural Literature


References



Methods



Literature Used in the Course: Recommended Literature


Index