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Book SynopsisThe authentic, storytelling process gives students the opportunity to include their heritage language and culture into the learning process at school. Often, students separate their heritage language and culture from the school culture. They do this in order to survive the complexity of living in dual worlds or perspectives (Belenky et al., 1986). When teachers integrate the heritage language, such as storytelling, into the authentic literacy processes, students find that their heritage language and culture has value. They discover that their teachers encourage the traditional storytelling of their own heritage stories in the classrooms among their classmates. This brings the dual perspective of living in two distinct worlds together. The culturally responsive teachers help to merge both the home and school culture together through authentic literacy.This book describes how culturally responsive teachers learn to navigate between the heritage languages of their students and the dominan
Trade ReviewThe particular contribution of Mitchell’s latest book on culturally responsive teaching and learning is her emphasis on starting with self-exploration. We often talk about students’ needing to be empowered, but teachers do, too. Nurturing educators’ own critical consciousness about literacy is key to our ability to develop meaningful and productive relationships with students of all cultures and abilities. -- Anna M. DiStefano, Fielding Graduate University
Table of ContentsPart I: Opening Minds: Global Literacies and Sociocultural Theory Introduction Chapter 1: How We Understand Stories through Sociocultural Theory and Critical Literacy Chapter 2: Identity and ShameLaura Mayo Chapter 3::Different Ways of Knowing Part II: Shifting Perspectives: Literacy and Oral Traditions of Storytelling Chapter 4: The Power of the Storytellers Chapter 5: Getting to Voice: How Marginalized Groups Find Their Voice through Language Development Mexican Indigenous Schools: Oaxaca, Mexico Part III: Transforming Lives: Teaching Process for Writer’s Workshop and Digital Narrative Technology: Power of Telling Stories Chapter 6: Looking at the development of story in the oral traditions within the framework of Balanced Literacy. Reading and Writing Workshop Approach Chapter 7: Storytellers Claim their Power and Identity through the Digital Narrative Process Bibliography About the Author
