High school students' competing worlds
Subtitle: negotiating identities and allegiances in response to multicultural literature
By: Richard W. Beach and Amanda Haertling Thein.
Contributors: Thein, Amanda Haertling.
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780805858556
Subjects: Multicultural education -- United States; High school students -- United States -- Social conditions; Group identity -- United States; Multiculturalism in literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constructing mediated identities across different social worlds; title: The social worlds constituting students' identities; title: Fostering student awareness of the influence of social worlds on characters and readers; title: Critiquing social worlds through grappling with dialogic tensions; title: Parks's methods for teaching multicultural literature; title: Identity construction congruent with the school world : Corey and Michelle; title: Identity construction challenging the school world : Devin and Kayla; title: Identity construction and racial positioning : Kathy and Mai; title: Dialogic tensions in classroom discussions of Love medicine, Kindred, and Bastard out of Carolina; title: Summary and implications for teaching multicultural literature; title: Appendix. Methods/analysis/coding.