Is This English?: Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom (Practitioner Inquiry Series, 28)

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
1: A Sense of Beginning; A Beginning of Sense......Page 16
MAKING MEANING......Page 17
WHAT THIS BOOK IS AND WHAT THIS BOOK ISN’T......Page 18
BUILDING A FRAMEWORK......Page 24
2: Hopelessness and Possibility......Page 27
MAKING MEANING......Page 28
THE SETTING: APATHY AND ALIENATION......Page 29
WHAT COUNTS AS LEARNING......Page 32
RACE, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE......Page 33
REASONS FOR BEING......Page 35
FLASHES OF BRILLIANCE......Page 37
3: Two’s Company; Three’s a Small Learning Community......Page 41
MAKING MEANING......Page 42
SKEINS OF UNDERSTANDING......Page 43
REALITY, FICTION, AND TWO WEEKS IN THE HAMPTONS......Page 45
SWIMMING WITH COLLEAGUES......Page 47
CREATING A SMALL LEARNING COMMUNITY......Page 49
4: Some of My Best Friends Are Theorists......Page 54
MAKING MEANING......Page 55
TRYING TO SIT ON A CLOUD......Page 57
AN ARGUMENT FOR THEORY......Page 59
INVITING LOUISE......Page 60
INVITING PAULO AND LISA......Page 61
ROOM 256 AS SALON......Page 64
5: Yo, Wazzup?......Page 66
MAKING MEANING......Page 68
A TEACHABLE, RESEARCHABLE MOMENT......Page 69
SETTING UP AN INQUIRY INTO LANGUAGE......Page 71
STUDENTS INQUIRING INTO LANGUAGE......Page 72
SEEING LANGUAGE DIFFERENTLY......Page 81
CODA......Page 84
6: Why Are You Doing This?......Page 85
MAKING MEANING......Page 86
ACKNOWLEDGING THREAT......Page 88
A CLASSROOM INQUIRY: CROWN HEIGHTS, 1991......Page 90
A MOTHER’S CONCERNS......Page 91
TRUTH AS WE PERCEIVE IT......Page 94
THINGS NOT TAUGHT IN METHODS COURSES......Page 96
NARROWING VIEWPOINTS......Page 98
DEEPENING PERSPECTIVES......Page 100
MAKING SENSE OF OUR THREATENING EXPERIENCE......Page 102
7: Learning as Aaron (with Aaron Green)......Page 106
MAKING MEANING......Page 108
THE STORY OF THE QUESTION......Page 109
TAKING AN EXISTENTIAL VIEW OF IDENTITY AND LITERACY......Page 111
THE RAP, THE ESSAY, AND THE OP-ED PIECE......Page 112
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER......Page 115
SEEING THE WHOLE STUDENT......Page 124
CODA......Page 126
8: Refusing to Go Along with the Joke......Page 128
MAKING MEANING......Page 130
LISTENING TO STUDENT CONCERNS......Page 132
RECOGNIZING DIFFERENCE......Page 135
THE STUDENTS AND THEIR PREVIOUS LEARNING EXPERIENCES......Page 136
CROSSING CULTURE......Page 137
INTERROGATING SELF AND OTHERS......Page 141
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY AND BEING RESPONSIVE......Page 145
SO WHAT?......Page 150
9: In Search of Wise Beauty and Beautiful Wisdom......Page 153
MAKING MEANING......Page 154
THE CRITICAL INQUIRY CLASSROOM......Page 157
SO WHERE AM I GOING WITH ALL THIS?......Page 164
CRITICAL INQUIRY AS A WAY OF LIFE......Page 171
Notes......Page 174
References......Page 176
C......Page 180
H......Page 182
L......Page 183
S......Page 184
U......Page 185
W......Page 186
About the Author......Page 188