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Our worlds in our words : exploring race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in multicultural classrooms
- Author
- Dilg, Mary.
- Title
- Our worlds in our words : exploring race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in multicultural classrooms / Mary Dilg.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Teachers College Press, c2010.
- Description
- xvii, 149 p. ; 24 cm.
- Uniform series
- Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction: Honoring high standards: reading, writing, speaking, and listening in a multicultural classroom. Context
- Overview
- Of studies and communities, standards and possibilities
- Contemporary society, standards, and a passion for learning in a multicultural world. Introduction
- Coming together from a divided society: divided neighborhoods/divided lives
- Educating for meaning, educating for skills in a multicultural society
- Meaningful standards in a democratic society
- Conclusion
- Exploring race, culture, and gender through American literature and films: understanding self and others. Prelude
- Introduction
- Reading for real, reading America
- A journey across America
- Reading across cultures, examining the lives of men and women: a pedagogy of multiculturalism
- Conclusion
- Reading literature and films through the lens of class: breaking taboos, examining factors that influence class membership and mobility. Introduction: class in students' lives/class in art
- Schooling and class
- The power, bonds, and chasms of class through adolescent eyes
- Classed lives in American literature
- A curriculum and pedagogy of class: crossing the lines of class in a classroom
- Teaching about class: dismantling illusions, challenging the bonds of class
- Conclusion
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lives and issues, readings and films: countering invisibility, interrupting the cycle of homophobia. Prologue
- Introduction: an evolving society/a host of questions
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender American literature: coded lives, classics, and best sellers
- Toward openness and clarity: writers, filmmakers, and a high school forum
- Supporting GLBT students-supporting all students-in the classroom
- Epilogue
- Conclusion: a place for growing into who we are
- Writing for self and others, writing for life: speaking to journals, making art, building arguments. Introduction: writing as a tool for observation, exploration, expression, and activism-the freedom to write/the support to succeed
- Writing for the self: speaking to journals
- Writing for others: making art, building arguments
- Writing for a multicultural audience
- A passion for writing in a diverse society
- Conclusion
- A multicultural classroom: a real and precious community. Introduction
- Building a multicultural community: developing habits of the heart and mind
- Implications of community building in an American classroom
- The larger context: looking back/looking forward
- Conclusion.
- Kinsey subjects
- Ethnic groups--Study and teaching--United States. American minorities--Education--United States. Homosexuality--Adolescent--United States.
- ISBN
- 9780807751169 (pbk : alk. paper) 0807751162 (pbk : alk. paper) 9780807751176 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807751170 (cloth : alk. paper)