High School Students' Competing Social Worlds: Negotiating Identities and Allegiances in Response to Multicultural Literature / Edition 1

by Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Daryl L. Parks

Overview

This book examines how working-class high school students’ identity construction is continually mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. Specifically, it addresses how responding to cultural differences portrayed in multicultural literature can serve to challenge adolescents’ allegiances to status quo discourses and cultural models, and how teachers not only can rouse students to clarify and change their value stances related to race, class, and gender, but also provide support for and validation of students’ self-interrogation.

Highlighting the influence of sociocultural forces, the book contributes to understanding the role of institutions in shaping adolescents’ lives, and identifies needs that must be addressed to improve those institutions. Current theory and research on critical discourse analysis, cultural models theory, and identity construction is meshed with specific applications of that theory and research to case-study profiles and analysis of classroom discussions. The instructional strategies described enable pre-service and in-service teachers to develop their own literature curriculum and instructional methods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780805858556
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/27/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard Beach (Author) , Amanda Thein (Author) , Daryl L. Parks (Author)

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Constructing Mediated Identities Across Different Social Worlds. The Social Worlds Constituting Students’ Identities. Fostering Student Awareness of the Influence of Social Worlds on Characters and Readers. Critiquing Social Worlds Through Grappling With Dialogic Tensions. Parks’s Methods for Teaching Multicultural Literature. Identity Construction Congruent With the School World: Corey and Michelle. Identity Construction Challenging the School World: Devin and Kayla. Identity Construction and Racial Positioning: Kathy and Mai. Dialogic Tensions in Classroom Discussions of Love Medicine, Kindred, and Bastard out of Carolina. Summary and Implications for Teaching Multicultural Literature. Appendix A: Methods/Analysis/Coding. Appendix B: Literature Used in the Course and Recommended Literature From the College in the Schools Program.