The skin that we speak : throughts on language and culture in the classroom / edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : The New Press, c2008.Description: xxvi, 218p. ; 21cmISBN:

978-1-59558-350-5

Subject(s):

Culture. Dialects. English (Second language)

DDC classification:

22nd ed. 379.2630973 SKI

Summary: The Skin That We Speak takes the discussion of language in the classroom beyond the highly charged war of idioms and presents today's teachers with a thoughtful exploration of the varieties of English that we speak, in what Black Issues Book Review calls "an essential text." Edited by bestselling author Lisa Delpit and education professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, the book includes an extended new piece by Delpit herself, as well as groundbreaking work by Herbert Kohl, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and Victoria Purcell-Gates, as well as classic texts by Geneva Smitherman and Asa Hilliard.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	CUoM Library General Stacks	Education	379.2630973 SKI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	00006053

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The Skin That We Speak takes the discussion of language in the classroom beyond the highly charged war of idioms and presents today's teachers with a thoughtful exploration of the varieties of English that we speak, in what Black Issues Book Review calls "an essential text." Edited by bestselling author Lisa Delpit and education professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, the book includes an extended new piece by Delpit herself, as well as groundbreaking work by Herbert Kohl, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and Victoria Purcell-Gates, as well as classic texts by Geneva Smitherman and Asa Hilliard.

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