Building Communities of Learners: A Collaboration Among Teachers, Students, Families, and Community

By Sudia Paloma McCaleb

This popular text shows how teachers can create partnerships with parents and students that facilitate participation in the schools while also validating home culture and family concerns and aspirations. It reflects current research and theory in several areas related to literacy development, including family literacy, bilingual and multicultural education, critical pedagogy, participatory research, cooperative learning, and feminist perspectives. Teachers of students who are immigrants, non-native speakers of English, and members of marginalized groups will find this book especially pertinent.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B01CMPF80W
• ISBN13: 9780805880052
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Every teacher and caregiver should read this

Collaboration is the way to help students overcome a variety of issues they face in today's tough world. By learning to work together in a safe environment, they develop lifelong skills that will help them with all interpersonal relationships. Home and community and school need to work together to educate children. McCaleb offers reasons why and how to accomplish the important task of interweaving the culture of these 3 elements in the children's lives. Sharing stories and creating books together is a great way to come together and also to create lasting memories.

A very powerful collaboration of multicultural issues.

This book provides the reader with classroom ideas to incorporate the family, communities, students, and teacher in the school curriculum. The teachers in the book suggest many different tactics to approach very diverse students and their families. McCaleb wants the students to realize that they are important in society, by showing them how others have succeeded. Students bring many experiences into the classroom, and teachers should build from those experiences to make their education more meaningful for the student