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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974738403321

Autore

Li Guofang <1972->

Titolo

Culturally contested pedagogy : battles of literacy  and schooling between mainstream teachers and Asian immigrant  parents / / Guofang Li ; with a foreword by Lee Gunderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006

ISBN

9780791482544

0791482545

9781423747895

1423747895

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, power, social identity, and education

Disciplina

371.829/95/073

Soggetti

Asian Americans - Education

Asians - Education - Canada

Children of immigrants - Education - United States

Children of immigrants - Education - Canada

Literacy - Social aspects - United States

Literacy - Social aspects - Canada

Parent-teacher relationships - United States

Parent-teacher relationships - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-253) and  index.

Nota di contenuto

Literacy instruction and cross-cultrual discourses -- The city, the school, and the families -- Literacy and culture battles: teacher beliefs and parent perspectives -- Beginning forays in the battles: Sandy, Anthony, Kevin, and Alana -- Living through the battles: Billy, Andy, Jake, and Tina -- Understanding the battles of literacy and culture: conflicts and -- Complexities -- Learning from the battles: toward a pedagogy of culrutal reciprocity.

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 2006 Edward Fry Book Award presented by the National Reading ConferenceThe voices of teachers, parents, and students create a compelling ethnographic study that examines the debate between traditional and progressive pedagogies in literacy education



and the mismatch of cross-cultural discourses between mainstream schools and Asian families. This book focuses on a Vancouver suburb where the Chinese population has surpassed the white community numerically and socioeconomically, but not politically, and where the author uncovers disturbing cultural conflicts, educational dissensions, and "silent" power struggles between school and home. What Guofang Li reveals illustrates the challenges of teaching and learning in an increasingly complex educational landscape in which literacy, culture, race, and social class intertwine. Advocating for a greater cultural understanding of minority beliefs in literacy education and a more critical examination of mainstream instructional practices, Li offers a new theoretical framework and critical recommendations for teachers, schools, and parents.