| Identity Texts: The Collaborative Creation of Power in Multilingual Schools Contributor(s): Cummins, Jim (Editor), Early, Margaret (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1858564786 ISBN-13: 9781858564784 Publisher: Trentham Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Multicultural Education - Education | Bilingual Education - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.6" W x 9.4" (0.75 lbs) 186 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Effective and inspirational pedagogy has been achieved through identity texts in multilingual school contexts, engaging students around the world. This book shows how identity texts are used. The term identity texts was first used by the Canada-wide Multiliteracies Project to describe a variety of creative work by students - collaborative inquiry, literary narratives, dramatic and multimodal performances - led by classroom teachers. The identity texts produced held up a mirror to the students which reflected their identities back in a positive light. Jim Cummins and Margaret Early describe the nature of identity texts and how they relate to broader orientations to pedagogy, and consider several pedagogical frameworks within which they have been integrated. Brief case studies follow of identity text construction by educators and students in schools in parts of North America and China, in Burkina Faso and Uganda in Africa, and in Italy, Spain and Greece. The closing chapter elaborates on the ways in which identity text construction can promote powerful forms of learning among culturally and linguistically diverse students. Identity Texts is essential reading for everyone concerned with developing appropriate pedagogy for schools and for all who work with multilingual children. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cummins, Jim: - Jim Cummins is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.Early, Margaret: - Margaret Early is Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. |