Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-380) and index.
Contents:
Appendix 1 : Teaching materials for I. Rogobert Menchu -- Appendix 2 : Film/video resources -- Appendix 3 : Guatemalan resources/activism. Rigoberta Menchú's secret : culture and education / John Willinsky -- Culture Shock and I, Rigoberta Menchú / Stephen Benz -- Controversial figure -- From peasant to national symbol / Arturo Arias -- Why Dinesh D'Souza has it in for Rogoberta Menchú / Gene H. Bell-Villada -- Teaching the Latin American context -- Me Ilamo Rigoberta Menchú : autoethnography and the recoding of citizenship / Mary Louise Pratt -- Creating a context for Rigoberta Menchú / Gene H. Bell-Villada -- The testimonial of Rigoberta Menchú in a native tradition / Luis O. Arata -- Official violence and folk violence : approaching I, Rigoberta Menchú from the perspectives of folklife and peace studies / William Westerman -- Literature from the land between : a high school unit on Central American literature / Judith E. Petersen -- The testimony of Rigoberta Menchú in the foreign language curriculum / Sharon Ahern Fechter -- Rigoberta Menchú and white, middle-class students -- Writing their way to compassionate citizenship : Rigoberta Menchú and activating high school learners / June Kuzmeskus -- The freshman experience at Willamette University : teaching and learning with Rigobert Menchú / Catherine Ann Collins and Patricia Varas -- Having to read a book about oppression : encountering Rigoberta Menchú's testimony in Boulder, Colorado / Robin Jones -- Worlding students / Steve Mathews -- Passion and politics : teaching Rigoberta Menchú's text as a feminist / Stacey Schlau -- Rigoberta Menchú and minority/nontradititonal students -- Rigoberta Menchú's testimony : empowering ESL students to write / David Blot -- Testimony in an adolescent day treatment center : Rigoberta Menchú and at-risk youth / Angela Wilcox Moroukian -- Testimonial constructions -- Testimonial dictionary to the reading of Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y asi me nacio la conciencia : in search of our voice / Rino G. Avellaneda ... [et al.] -- Rigoberta's earrings : the limits of teaching testimonio / Tace Hedrick -- Not just plain English : teaching critical reading with I, Rigoberta Menchú / Clyde Moneyhun -- "This is my testimony" : Rigoberta Menchú in a class on oral history / Meri-Jane Rochelson -- Comparative strategies -- Rigoberta Menchú's testimony as required first-year reading / Jonnie G. Guerra and Sharon Ahern Fechter -- A window of opportunity : an ethics of reading third-world autobiography / Janet Varner Gunn -- Supplementing the standard curriculum : Twain's Connecticut Yankee and Menchú's Indian woman of Guatemala / Geraldine T. Rodriguez -- Reflective teaching -- Bridging the gap : modes of testimony and teaching Central American politics / Daniel Goldrich -- Rigoberta Menchú and Latin American cultural history : a professor's journal / Teresa Longo -- Training teachers with Rogoberta Menchú : a computer conference / Allen Carey-Webb -- Rigoberta Menchú's secret : culture and education / John Willinsky -- Appendix 1 : Teaching materials for I. Rogobert Menchu -- Appendix 2 : Film/video resources -- Appendix 3 : Guatemalan resources/activism.
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