High school students' competing worlds : negotiating identities and allegiances in response to multicultural literature / Richard W. Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Daryl Parks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beach, Richard.

Contributor:

Thein, Amanda Haertling.

Parks, Daryl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Multiculturalism in literature.

High school students.

Social conditions.

United States.

High school students--United States--Social conditions.

Group identity--United States.

Group identity.

Multiculturalism in literature--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 335 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : L. Erlbaum Associates, [2008]

Summary:

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 their 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 are 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.

Contents:

Constructing mediated identities across different social worlds

The social worlds constituting students' identities

Fostering student awareness of 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 Love medicine, Kindred, and Bastard out of Carolina

Summary and implications for teaching multicultural literature

Appendix. Methods/analysis/coding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index.

ISBN:

9780805858556

0805858555

OCLC:

123391002