| Talkin Black Talk: Language, Education, and Social Change Contributor(s): Alim, H. Samy (Editor), Baugh, John (Editor), Banks, James a. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807747467 ISBN-13: 9780807747469 Publisher: Teachers College Press OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: Featuring a progressive group of black professors and poets, this work captures an important moment in the history of language and literacy education and the continuing struggle for equal language rights. The editors revisit the problem of public school's failure to educate Black children. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Multicultural Education |
| Dewey: 427.973 |
| LCCN: 2006028928 |
| Series: Multicultural Education |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.22" W x 9.02" (0.63 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Talkin Black Talk captures an important moment in the history of language and literacy education and the continuing struggle for equal language rights. Published 50 years after the Brown decision, this volume revisits the difficult and enduring problem of public schools' failure to educate Black children and revises our approaches to language and literacy learning in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the study of Black Language, culture, and education, this book presents creative, classroom-based, hands-on pedagogical approaches (from Hip Hop Culture to the art of teaching narrative reading comprehension) within the context of the broader, global concerns that impact schooling (from linguistic emancipation to the case of Mother Tongue Education in South Africa). This landmark work:
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