The Skin that We Speak : Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom /
Edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy.
- xxiv, 229 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm.
"The author of Other People's Children joins with other experts to examine the relationship between language and power in the classroom. 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. At a time when children are written off in our schools because they do not speak formal English, and when the class- and race-biased language used to describe those children determines their fate, The Skin That We Speak offers a cutting-edge look at crucial educational issues." (Abebooks) CONTENT: Introduction Part 1: Language and Identity Chapter 1: Ovuh Dyuh /
Chapter 2: Ebonics: A Case History / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy Ernie Smith
Part 2: Language in the Classroom Chapter 3: No Kinda Sense / Chapter 4: Trilingualism / Chapter 5: Some Basic Sociolinguistic Concepts / Chapter 6: Language, Culture, and the Assessment of African American Children / Chapter 7: I ain't writin' nuttin': Permissions to Fail and Demands to Succeed in Urban Classrooms / Chapter 8: "... As Soon As She Opened Her Mouth!": Issues of Language, Literacy, and Power / Lisa Delpit Judith Baker Michael Stubbs Asa G. Hilliard III Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Victoria Purcell-Gates Part 3 Teacher Knowledge Chapter 9: Topsy-Turvies: Teacher Talk and Student Talk / Chapter 10: Toward a National Public Policy on Language / Chapter 11: The Clash of "Common Senses": Two African American Women Become Teachers / Chapter 12: "We don't talk right. You ask him." / Herbert Kohl Geneva Smitherman Shuaib Meacham Joan Wynne Appendix: Linguistic Society of America Resolution on the Oakland "Ebonics" Issue
1595583505 9781595583505
Native language and education.
English language--Study and teaching.
English language--Social aspects.--Dialects
Multicultural education.
Language policy.
"The author of Other People's Children joins with other experts to examine the relationship between language and power in the classroom. 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. At a time when children are written off in our schools because they do not speak formal English, and when the class- and race-biased language used to describe those children determines their fate, The Skin That We Speak offers a cutting-edge look at crucial educational issues." (Abebooks) CONTENT: Introduction Part 1: Language and Identity Chapter 1: Ovuh Dyuh /
Chapter 2: Ebonics: A Case History / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy Ernie Smith
Part 2: Language in the Classroom Chapter 3: No Kinda Sense / Chapter 4: Trilingualism / Chapter 5: Some Basic Sociolinguistic Concepts / Chapter 6: Language, Culture, and the Assessment of African American Children / Chapter 7: I ain't writin' nuttin': Permissions to Fail and Demands to Succeed in Urban Classrooms / Chapter 8: "... As Soon As She Opened Her Mouth!": Issues of Language, Literacy, and Power / Lisa Delpit Judith Baker Michael Stubbs Asa G. Hilliard III Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Victoria Purcell-Gates Part 3 Teacher Knowledge Chapter 9: Topsy-Turvies: Teacher Talk and Student Talk / Chapter 10: Toward a National Public Policy on Language / Chapter 11: The Clash of "Common Senses": Two African American Women Become Teachers / Chapter 12: "We don't talk right. You ask him." / Herbert Kohl Geneva Smitherman Shuaib Meacham Joan Wynne Appendix: Linguistic Society of America Resolution on the Oakland "Ebonics" Issue
1595583505 9781595583505
Native language and education.
English language--Study and teaching.
English language--Social aspects.--Dialects
Multicultural education.
Language policy.