| Teaching Other People's Children: Literacy and Learning in a Bilingual Classroom Contributor(s): Ballenger, Cynthia (Author), Lytle, Susan L. (Editor), Cochran-Smith, Marilyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807737895 ISBN-13: 9780807737897 Publisher: Teachers College Press OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1998 Annotation: What happens when a teacher does not share a cultural background with her students? In this thoroughly engaging account, one North American teacher describes her three years teaching Haitian children in an inner-city preschool. Focusing on classroom behavior, concepts of print, and storybook reading, this book will challenge many widely held assumptions and cultural perspectives about the education of young children. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Aims & Objectives - Education | Multicultural Education - Education | Bilingual Education |
| Dewey: 370.117 |
| LCCN: 98047545 |
| Series: Practitioner Inquiry |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.96" W x 9.2" (0.38 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What happens when a teacher does not share a cultural background with her students? In this thoroughly engaging account, one North American teacher describes her three years teaching Haitian children in an inner-city preschool. Using classroom research, Cynthia Ballenger explores how teachers who listen closely to children from other cultures can understand the approaches to literature that these children bring with them to school. Practitioners will identify with Ballenger, who struggles to find the academic strengths of children whose parents do not read them bedtime stories or otherwise prepare them for school in ways that are familiar to her. Focusing on three areas crucial to early childhood education (classroom behavior, concepts of print, and storybook reading), this book will challenge many widely held assumptions and cultural perspectives about the education of young children. |