Dialoguing across Cultures, Identities, and Learning - 9781138998582

Taylor & Francis

Dialoguing across Cultures, Identities, and LearningCrosscurrents and Complexities in Literacy Classrooms\nAuthor(s): Bob Fecho, Jennifer Clifton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138998582, 978-1138998582\nSynopsis\nDrawing on Dialogical Self Theory, this book presents a new framework for social and cultural identity construction in the literacy classroom, offering possibilities for how teachers might adjust their pedagogy to better support the range of cultural stances present in all classrooms.\n\nIn the complex multicultural/multiethnic/multilingual contexts of learning in and out of school spaces today, students and teachers are constantly dialoguing across cultures, both internally and externally, and these cultures are in dialogue with each other. The authors unpack some of the complexity of culture and identity, what people do with culture and identity, and how people navigate multiple cultures and identit.