High school students' competing social worlds negotiating identities and allegiances in response to multicultural literature / Richard W. Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Daryl Parks
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Constructing Mediated Identities across Different Social Worlds -- Chapter 2: The Social Worlds Constituting Students' Identities -- Chapter 3: Responding to the Influence of Social Worlds on Characters and Readers -- Chapter 4: Critiquing Social Worlds through Grappling with Dialogic Tensions -- Chapter 5: Parks's Methods for Teaching Multicultural Literature -- Chapter 6: Identity Construction Congruent with the School World
Chapter 7: Identity Construction Challenging the School World -- Chapter 8: Identity Construction and Racial Positioning -- Chapter 9: Dialogic Tensions in Classroom Discussions of Three Novels -- Chapter 10: Summary and Implications for Teaching Multicultural Literature -- References -- Appendix A: Methods -- Appendix B: Literature Used in the Course: Recommended Literature -- Index
Summary
Presents the results of a study of how adolescents at a high school located in an urban, working-class neighborhood learned to construct and reflect on their identities through responses to literature, featuring seven case-study profiles, as well as discussion of instructional methods
