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Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction- The National Mythology and Urban Teaching "United in Diversity": The Rhetoric and Reality Classroom Practice and Cultural Context This Book and its Organization Part I: The Power of Inquiry Chapter 1- "From the Heart to the World and Back Again": Negotiating the Boundaries. From the Location of the Classroom From the Location of the University From the Location of my Past Back to the Urban Classroom A Professional Community The Power of Stories Chapter 2- Celso's Secret Box: Creating Community Through Shared Stories The Manongs and Manangs Different Paths, Different Stories Celso's Story Creating Community Through Narrative "It's What We Have Survived" Nurturing Schooling Chapter 3- Carmen's Unwritten Story: Failing Our Students with Remediation Discovering Carmen's Roles Carmen's Father Carmen's Unwritten Story Schooling as Exclusion The Second Classroom Part II: Literacy Practices in the Second Classroom Chapter 4- "We are Strong and Sturdy in the Heart": Redefining Accountability Residential Stigma The Neighborhood Writes Back Chapter 5- "I Will Tell You a Little Bit About My People": Narrating Immigrant Pasts Necessary Silences Silencing in Schools From Silence to Voice Intergenerational Storytelling Narratives of Survival Priscilla's Biography Ma-Lee's Autobiography: "I Want to Be Part of Both Cultures" "My Culture is the Right Way to Be" Learning to Listen Chapter 6- "They Came Here for Their Lives": Writing Transnational Identities Maria: Writing from a Balikbayan Perspective "I'm Going to Talk to You About Myself": School Literacy as Reflection "This Was a Day That Had Swollen My Heart": School Literacy as Empathy "Part of my Life was Refilled Into my Mind": School Literacy as Correspondence Reaching Across Difference Chapter 7- "Dancing Across Borders": Performing Identities The Personal as Professional "The World Outside Our World was Foreign" Lesson Plans: "Girl Talk" and Teatro Cuando Todos Somos Iguales (When We Are All Equal!) What the Teacher Didn't Know Community Through Transgression PART III: The Process of Inquiry Chapter 8 Continuing Stories Chapter 9 Systematic Improvisation: A Way of Teaching and Researching Commitment to Inquiry The Teacher Researcher as an Emergent Professional and Activist Identity Our Literacy Curriculum References Index About the Author
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Children of immigrants -- Education -- United States.
Multicultural education -- United States.
Language arts -- United States.