The presentation group list is forthcoming. Here is what will be covered in section this week,

WEEK 6

Class 11:  February 21, 2012
Guest Speaker:  Dave Malinowski, PhD
Heteroglossia and discourses

Gee, James P. (1991). “What is Literacy?” In C. Mitchell & K. Weiler (Eds.), Rewriting literacy: Culture and the discourse of the other (pp. 3-11). New York: Bergin & Garvey.
A short but valuable piece that adds the term “Discourses” to our literacy vocabulary.

Bakhtin, M.  (1994). Excerpts from The Bakhtin Reader, Pam Morris (Ed.). London: Arnold (pp. 73-80).
This complex theoretical piece introduces the concept of heteroglossia:  language and literacy as multiple voices.

Class 12:  February 23, 2012
Identity & schooling

Howard, G.R. (2006). We can’t teach what we don’t know: white teachers, multiracial schools (13-27; 53-67).Teachers College Press. New York and London.
In the first chapter of this powerful book, veteran educator, Gary Howard, writes of his coming to terms with his whiteness, and all that it entails, while living in a poor, predominately African American neighborhood during both the Civil Rights movement and its reluctant progeny, the Black Power Movement. Later, in the third chapter of this book, he systematically deconstructs what he refers to as the “dominance paradigm” employed by whiteness.

Olsen, L. (1997).  We make each other racial: The Madison High world as perceived by the “American” student.  In Made in America (58-89).  New York: The New Press.
This chapter presents high school students views on how race factors into their social experience.

Delpit, Lisa. (1995). The silenced dialogue: Power and pedagogy in educating other people’s children. In Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom (21-47). New York: The New Press.
Delpit questions both why some children of color don't learn to read when taught by means of "progressive" and "child-centered" methods and why teachers and parents of color are often excluded in conversations about what is good for their children.