Teaching Other People's Children - Literacy and Learning in a Bilingual Classroom

What happens when a teacher does not share a cultural background with her students? In this thoroughly engaging account, one North American teacher describes her three years teaching Haitian children in an inner-city preschool. Focusing on classroom behavior, concepts of print, and storybook reading, this book will challenge many widely held assumptions and cultural perspectives about the education of young children.

About the author

Cynthia Ballenger is an Early Childhood Specialist currently on staff at the Cheche (add accent) Konnen Center, A National Science Foundation-funded center for science education reform and linguistic minority students.

Summary

A teacher describes her three years teaching Haitian children in an inner-city preschool. Using her own classroom research, the book explores how teachers find ways to listen closely to children from other backgrounds and the approaches to literature that these children bring with them to school.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Ballenger
• Assisted by: Marilyn Cochran-Smith (Editor), Susan L Lytle (Editor), Susan L. Lytle (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: age 0
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.1998
• EAN: 9780807737897
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-3789-7
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 234 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 172 g
• Series: Practitioner Enquiry Series; Teaching Other People's Childr; Practitioner Inquiry; Practitioner Enquiry Series; Teaching Other People's Childr
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics