High School Students' Competing Social Worlds: Negotiating Identities and Allegiances in Response to Multicultural Literature

by Daryl Parks, Amanda Haertling Thein, Amanda Thein, et al.

Book Overview

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 addresses how responding to cultural differences portrayed in multicultural literature can serve to challenge adolescents' allegiances to status quo discourses and cultural models, and how teachers not only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805858555
• ISBN13: 9780805858556
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 8.9"