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Eating on the Street: Teaching Literacy in a Multicultural Society (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture) - Hardcover
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This is an account of how 30 African-American children from a poor area of Detroit, were enrolled in the Dewey Center Community Writing Program, aiming to promote literacy and enable the exploration and interpretation of the children's community. The heart of the project lay in storytelling.
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"[Schaafsma's] conclusions mark as significant a point as to how we educate our nation's children as well as anything Jonathan Kozol has written over the years."
--The State Jounal (Madison, Wisc.)
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Teaching literacy in a multicultural society. This book is rich in its citations for those of us who wish to hear the echoes of real voices as we read the voices of real people living complicated lives. So should it help us all, for in some sense all of us, in these times, are eating on the street.
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Eating on the Street: Teaching Literacy in a Multicultural Society (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture)
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 229 pages; edge wear to jacket and boards; small edge tears to jacket; During a field trip in Detroit on a summer day in 1989, a group of African American fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-graders talked, laughed, and ate snacks as they walked. Later, in the teacher's lounge, Jeanetta, an African American teacher chided the teachers, black and white, for not correcting poor black students for "eating on the street," something she saw as stereotypical behavior that stigmatized students. Seller Inventory # 018994
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Eating on the Street : Teaching Literacy in a Multicultural Society
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Eating On The Street: Teaching Literacy in a Multicultural Society (Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 163)
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Eating on the Street: Teaching Literacy in a Multicultural Society (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture)
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