Diversity as resource : redefining cultural literacy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Murray, Denise E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Alexandria, Va. : English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc, [1992]
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Table of Contents:
  • Expanding assumptions about literacy and culture. Whose culture? Whose literacy? / Keith Walters
  • Whose shared assumptions? making the implicit explicit / Anna O. Soter
  • Identifying the languages and cultures of our students / Denise E. Murray, Patricia C . Nichols, and Allison Heisch
  • Specific literacies and uses of language. Sensitizing teachers to cultural differences: an African American perspective / Evelyn Baker Dandy
  • A Mexicano perspective: reading the world in a multicultural setting / Olga A. Vasquez
  • A Khmer perspective: connections between Khmer students' behaviors, history, and culture / Usha Welaratna
  • Cultural diversity and socialization: a case study of a Hispanic woman in a doctoral program in sociology / Christine Pearson Casanave
  • Toward developing a cultural repertoire: a case study of a Lao college freshman / Ann M. Johns
  • Diversity among individuals: eight students making sense of classroom journal writing / Tamara Lucas
  • Teaching diverse learners. Power and the politics of knowledge: transformative schooling for minority language learners / Daniel McLaughlin
  • Unlimited resources: tapping into learners' language, culture, and thought / Denise E. Murray
  • Language in the attic: claiming our linguistic heritage / Patricia C. Nichols.