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Biography-driven Culturally Responsive Teaching - Softcover

Herrera, Socorro

 
9780807750865: Biography-driven Culturally Responsive Teaching

Synopsis

A practical guide for teachers serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations. It demonstrates how to plan and implement culturally responsive instruction using student biographies as the point of departure. The author provides tools for tapping into the strengths students bring from their sociocultural, linguistic, cognitive, and academic histories, and shows how to draw on these assets and guide students to better access their own strengths and existing funds of knowledge.

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About the Author

EDMUND T. HAMANN Research and Development Specialist, the Education Alliance, Brown University. He is co-editor (with Stanton Wortham and Enrique G. Murillo Jr.) of Education in the New Latino Diaspora (2001).

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