Title "Is this English?" : race, language, and culture in the classroom / Bob Fecho ; foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	373.11 F291I	Check Shelf

Description	xii, 173 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	The practitioner inquiry series
	Practitioner inquiry series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-163) and index.
Contents	A sense of beginning; a beginning of sense -- Hopelessness and possibility -- Two's company; three's a small learning community -- Some of my best friends are theorists -- Yo, wazzup? -- Why are you doing this? -- Learning as Aaron (with Aaron Green) -- Refusing to go along with the joke -- In search of wise beauty and beautiful wisdom.
Summary	Through his journey, the author presents a method of "critical inquiry" that allows students and teachers to take intellectual and social risks in the classroom to make meaning together, and, ultimately, to transform literacy education.
Subject	High school teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Pennsylvania -- History.
	African American high school students -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Multicultural education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	African American high school students. (OCoLC)fst00799193
	English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary) (OCoLC)fst00911806
	High school teaching. (OCoLC)fst00956279
	Multicultural education. (OCoLC)fst01028816
	Pennsylvania. (OCoLC)fst01204598
	Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. (OCoLC)fst01204170
	Englischunterricht.
	High school.
	Interkulturelle Erziehung.
	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	0807744085 (cloth ; alk. paper)
	9780807744086 (cloth ; alk. paper)
	0807744077 (paper ; alk. paper)
	9780807744079 (paper ; alk. paper)

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