Teaching Other People's Children

by Ballenger, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9780807737897
• ISBN10: 0807737895
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Courtney Cazden
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(7)
The Children	3	(2)
The Teacher	5	(1)
The Book	6	(2)
Traditions	8	(7)
The Legacy of the 1960s	9	(3)
Steve's Question	12	(2)
Conclusion	14	(1)
The Setting	15	(16)
Beginnings	16	(1)
The School	16	(4)
Attitudes Toward Education	20	(1)
Language	21	(1)
Literary	22	(2)
The Haitian Family	24	(6)
Conclusion	30	(1)
``Because You Like Us'': The Language of Control	31	(10)
The Problem	31	(2)
Texts	33	(1)
Discussion of the Texts	34	(3)
Practice	37	(2)
The Wider Context	39	(2)
Learning the ABCs: The Shadow Curriculum	41	(11)
The Problem	41	(1)
My Curriculum	42	(3)
The Shadow Curriculum	45	(4)
Social and Intellectual Lives	49	(3)
Storybook Reading	52	(17)
Books and Catalogs	53	(4)
Storybook Reading	57	(12)
``Now the Robbers Is Nice''	69	(13)
Talk Around Books-My Students' View	70	(3)
Talk Around Books-My Community's View	73	(2)
The Sources of Interpretation	75	(3)
Conclusion	78	(4)
What Is Teacher Research?	82	(19)
Texts	82	(19)
References	101	(4)
Index	105	(4)
About the Author	109