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Trentham Books | Multilingualism |
Edited by: Jim Cummins and Margaret Early
ISBN: 9781858564784
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186 pages244 x 170mmJuly 2011Effective and inspirational pedagogy has been achieved through identity texts in multilingual school contexts, engaging students around the world. This book shows how identity texts are used. The term identity texts was first used by the Canada-wide Multiliteracies Project to describe a variety of creative work by students - collaborative inquiry, literary narratives, dramatic and multimodal performances - led by classroom teachers. The identity texts produced held up a mirror to the students which reflected their identities back in a positive light. Jim Cummins and Margaret Early describe the nature of identity texts and how they relate to broader orientations to pedagogy, and consider several pedagogical frameworks within which they have been integrated. Brief case studies follow of identity text construction by educators and students in schools in parts of North America and China, in Burkina Faso and Uganda in Africa, and in Italy, Spain and Greece. The closing chapter elaborates on the ways in which identity text construction can promote powerful forms of learning among culturally and linguistically diverse students. Identity Texts is essential reading for everyone concerned with developing appropriate pedagogy for schools and for all who work with multilingual children.People who bought this item also bought:
Jim Cummins is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.Margaret Early is Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
PART ONE: IDENTITY TEXTSChapter 1 Introduction - Jim Cummins, Margaret EarlyChapter 2 Frames of Referrence: Identity Texts in Perspective - Jim Cummins, Margaret Early, Saskia StilleChapter 3 I'm not just a coloring person: Teacher and Student Perspectives on Identity Text Construction - Lisa Leoni, Sarah Cohen, Jim Cummins, Vicki Bismilla, Madiha Bajwaa, Sulmana Hanif, Kanta Khalid, Tomer ShaharPART TWO: THE CASE STUDIESChapter 4: Case Studies of Identity Text CreationCase study 1: Performing Identity Texts: A multilingual creative writing classs in the State Prison of Oaxaca, Mexico - Angeles Clemente, Michael Higgins, Donald Kissinger and William SughruaCase study 2: Multilingual Identity Texts in the Library Curriculum - Sarah Cohen and Padma SastriCase study 3: Creating Picture Books and Performance as Identity Texts in a Core French Classroom - Margaret Early and Cindy YeungCase study 4: Weaving Other Languages and Cultures into the Curriculum in International Primary Schools - Eithne GallagherCase study 5: We're just like real authours: The power of dual language identity texts in a multilingual school - Frances Giampapa and Perminder SandhuCase study 6: Identity Journals in Multicultural / Multilingual Schools in Greece - Vasila Kourtis-KazoullisCase study 7: Multi-Language Identity Texts + Internet Technology: A Case Study in Guza, China - Jonathan LambertCase study 8: I Am Becoming More Intelligent Every Day: Non-native English student teachers liverating Identity Texts - Mario E. López-GoparCase study 9: Getting Students to Document Linguistic Diversity - Dolors Masats and Virginia UnamunoCase study 10: The Multimodal Discursive Construction of a Dancer on YouTube as Identity Text - Kim MeredithCase study 11: Identity Affirmation through Story Writing - Rania MirzaCase study 12 Identity Texts in a Sister-class Context: How are ELL students' voices heard - Jacqueline NgCase study 13 Drama as Identity Texts in Ugandan HIV/AIDS Clubs - Bonny NortonCase study 14 Multilingualism as an Academic Resource - Diane PottsCase study 15 Let Me (Re) tell You My Story: Creating trilingual identity texts at an orphanage school in Burkina Faso - Gail PrasadCase study 16 Quilting Our Communities: Creating personal and collective identity texts through the integration of the Arts in a Grade 3 class - Gail Prasad and Nancy DykstraCase study 17 Identity Texts for Teacher Training in Multicultural Society - Jérémie Séror, Amanda Hennessey and Nico PaluzziCase study 18 Developing American Sign Language (ASL) Identity Texts - Kristen SnoddonChapter 5 It really comes down to the teachers, I think: Pedagogies of choice in the multilingual classrooms - Jim Cummins, Margaret Early, Lisa Leoni and Saskia Stille
