Culture in school learning
Subtitle: revealing the deep meaning
By: Etta R. Hollins.
Publisher: L. Erlbaum
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Educational anthropology -- United States.; Multicultural education -- United States.
Description: "Culture in School Learning: Revealing the Deep Meaning introduces pre- and in-service teachers to the centrality of culture in school learning. Readers are engaged in a process of constructing an operational definition of culture that reveals its deep meaning in cognition and learning, and in applying a "reflective-interpretive-inquiry" approach to making linkages between students' cultural and experiential backgrounds and classroom instruction."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-169) and indexes.