Culture in School Learning

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"Culture in School Learning: Revealing the Deep Meaning introduces pre- and in-service teachers to the centrality of culture in school learning. Readers are engaged in a process of constructing an operational definition of culture that reveals its deep meaning in cognition and learning, and in applying a "reflective-interpretive-inquiry" approach to making linkages between students' cultural and experiential backgrounds and classroom instruction."--Jacket.

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"In this text Etta Hollins presents a powerful process for developing a teaching perspective that embraces the centrality of culture in school learning. The six-part process covers objectifying culture, personalizing culture, inquiring about students' cultures and communities, applying knowledge about culture to teaching, formulating theory or a conceptual framework linking culture and school learning, and transforming professional practice to better meet the needs of students from different cultural and experiential backgrounds." "This book is primarily designed for preservice teachers in courses on multicultural education, social foundations of education, principles of education, and introduction to teaching. Inservice teachers and graduate students will find it equally useful."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

• Culture in school learning: revealing the deep meaningL. Erlbaum1996-01-01
• Culture in School LearningPaperbackRoutledge2008-03-01