Culture, Literacy, and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind (Multicultural Education (Paper)) (Multicultural Education Series)
By Carol D Lee.
Description
How can educators improve the literacy skills of students in a historically underachieving urban high school? In this timely book, the author draws on her experience as a participant observer to provide a unique, insider's view to both designing and implementing a culturally responsive approach to improve learning and teaching in a specific subject area. The Cultural Modeling Project, which she presents here, drew on competencies students already had in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) discourse and hip hop culture to tackle complex problems in the study of literature. Using ...
ISBN(s)
0807747483, 9780807747483
