Dialoguing across cultures, identities, and learning : crosscurrents and complexities in literacy classrooms / Bob Fecho, Jennifer Clifton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fecho, Bob, author.

Clifton, Jennifer, author.

Series:

Language, culture, and teaching

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Social aspects.

Literacy.

Language arts--Social aspects.

Language arts.

Interaction analysis in education.

Multicultural education.

Physical Description:

viii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Drawing on dialogical self theory, this book presents a new framework for social and cultural identity construction in the literacy classroom, offering possibilities for how teachers might adjust their pedagogy to better support the range of cultural stances present in all classrooms. In the complex multicultural/multiethnic/multilingual contexts of learning in and out of school spaces today, students and teachers are constantly dialoguing across cultures, both internally and externally, and these cultures are in dialogue with each other. The authors unpack some of the complexity of culture and identity, what people do with culture and identity, and how people navigate multiple cultures and identities. Readers are invited to re-examine how they view different cultures and the roles these play in their lives, and to dialogue with the authors about cultures, learning, literacy, identity, and agency. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Cultures and the Dialogical Self 22

Sketching the Dialogue of Cultures 23

Constructing a Self 26

Dialoguing with Multiple Cultures 31

Dialoguing through Uncertainty 38

Moving Forward 41

2 Learning, Cultures, and the Dialogical Self 43

So Where Is This Going? 44

Cultures, Learning and Ideological Becoming 48

Ideological Becoming within Ideological Environments 49

Relationships with the Self in Educational Contexts 56

Now, and Then 65

3 Literacies, Learning, Cultures, and the Dialogical Self 69

Literacies and Dialogical Selves 75

Connecting Bakhtin, Literacy, and the Dialogical Self 78

Learning within Tensions 82

Implications for Teaching Reading and Writing 83

Moving Forward 87

4 Identities, Literacies, Learning, Cultures, and the Dialogical Self 91

Constructing Identities 93

Some Reminders and Some New Connections 97

Learning through Isaac and Sam 101

What We Make of All This 114

Moving Forward 118

5 Agency, Identities, Literacies, Learning, Cultures, and the Dialogical Self 123

Unpacking Agency 125

Takeaways 136

Last Words, at Least for Now 142.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138998582

1138998583

9781138998599

1138998591

OCLC:

943700709