High school students' competing worlds : negotiating identities and allegiances in response to multicultural literature / Richard W. Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Daryl Parks.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-298) and index.
Contents:
Constructing mediated identities across different social worlds -- The social worlds constituting students' identities -- Fostering student awareness of the influence of social worlds on characters and readers -- Critiquing social worlds through grappling with dialogic tensions -- Parks's methods for teaching multicultural literature -- Identity construction congruent with the school world : Corey and Michelle -- Identity construction challenging the school world : Devin and Kayla -- Identity construction and racial positioning : Kathy and Mai -- Dialogic tensions in classroom discussions of Love medicine, Kindred, and Bastard out of Carolina -- Summary and implications for teaching multicultural literature -- Appendix. Methods/analysis/coding.
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