Teaching and Testimony: Rigoberta Menchu and the North American Classroom (Interruptions : Border Testimony(Ies) and Critical Discourse/S)
Contributors: Allen Carey-Webb (Editor); Stephen Connely Benz (Editor)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: July 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780791430132
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Teaching skills & techniques; Teaching; Me llamo Rigoberta Menchu y a; Women human rights workers; Education / Teaching; Study and teaching; Education; Quichâe Indians; Menchu, Rigoberta; Aims & Objectives; Me llamo Rigoberta Mench y as me naci la conciencia; Me llamo Rigoberta Menchu y asi me nacio la conciencia; Mench, Rigoberta; Biographical methods; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Guatemala; Quiche Indians
Description: "By utilizing the testimonial narrative of Rigoberta Menchu - a Mayan-Quiche of Guatemala and winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace prize - teachers in this volume engage students in vital and relevant cross-cultural learning in a variety of locations, disciplines, and levels. Teaching and Testimony tells teachers' stories of using Menchu's testimonial in their classrooms, and invites reflection on the transformative possibility of integrating previously marginalized voices. Energized by the teaching of Menchu's testimonial narrative, I, Rigoberta Menchu, these teachers let their guard down, wrestle with the immediate difficulties and possibilities of multicultural teaching, and speak with passion about the importance of what they and their students are learning."--BOOK JACKET.