High School Students' Competing Social Worlds

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This book examines how working-class high school students' identity construction is continually mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. Specifically, it ad Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface. Constructing Mediated Identities Across Different Social Worlds. The Social Worlds Constituting Students' Identities. Fostering Student Awareness of the Influence of Social Worlds on Characters and Readers. Critiquing Social Worlds Through Grappling With Dialogic Tensions. Parks's Methods for Teaching Multicultural Literature. Identity Construction Congruent With the School World: Corey and Michelle. Identity Construction Challenging the School World: Devin and Kayla. Identity Construction and Racial Positioning: Kathy and Mai. Dialogic Tensions in Classroom Discussions of Love Medicine, Kindred, and Bastard out of Carolina. Summary and Implications for Teaching Multicultural Literature. Appendix A: Methods/Analysis/Coding. Appendix B: Literature Used in the Course and Recommended Literature From the College in the Schools Program.