This book is a sequel to the author's earlier volume entitled, Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings. In addition to extensive updating of earlier material, this book extends the content coverage to include issues of power, attitudes, and systemic change through the application of discourse theory and critical theory. In doing so, however, the author has tried to maintain the brevity, stylistic clarity, and classroom focus of the earlier volume. Key features of this important new book include: • Teaching Flexibility. Although written with the classroom needs of pre-service teachers in mind, theory, and research are treated in sufficient depth to make the book suitable for graduate courses and for teacher study groups. • Issues Organization. Each chapter is organized around familiar issues that characterize schools and classrooms with diverse student populations and explores these issues through new lenses that most teachers have not previously encountered. • Social Constructivist Perspective. Critical theory, discourse theory, and historical perspective are introduced in order to sensitize readers to the need to recognize negative, socially sustained patterns that hamper literacy achievement and replace them with positive patterns. To this end each chapter asks students to maintain a running list of negative patterns along with alternative positive patterns.
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A book such as 'Multicultural Issues and Literacy Achievement', by Kathryn Au, would be an excellent resource for teacher education and could also serve as valuable teacher's lounge reading material. Au integrates valuable research with clear application and does so in a lucid manner. Her book is a clearly written academic work, which reflects the author's personal experience and interactions with involved colleagues....she seeks to look at familiar issues in education through new lenses and to stimulate thinking, discussion, and reflection among her readers....she succeeds in doing so remarkably well with this clear, understandable, jargon-free book.
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This book is a great read for anyone who teaches. Multicultural issues affect all teachers in the classroom and influence the learning of children. Even if the climate is homogenous, teachers need to be aware of how to deal with anomolies when students are not learning as they should. This book offers suggestions and details practices that are helpful. The programs can be applied to areas other than reading and writing.
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