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Teaching and Learning about Multicultural Literature: Students Reading Outside Their Culture in a Middle School Classroom

This book shares the findings of a study of one teacher, Ann, and her eighth-grade classes of 123 readers who participated in a multicultural literature unit. A feature of the study was that the majority of the students were white--that is, the dominant culture--and studied novels representing nondominant cultures. The study's purpose was to find out what dominant-culture students learn when reading novels about people from cultures different from their own.

• Contributor: Dressel, Janice Hartwick Corp Author International Reading Association Newark D. E.
• Author's address: Order Department, International Reading Association, 800 Barksdale Road, P.O. Box 8139, Newark, DE 19714-8139 ($22.95). Web site: http://www.reading.org.
• Date Published: 00-00
• Year: 2003

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• Network/channel: NIUSI: District Effort & Support: Student Services
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Families & Communities: Culture
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Teaching Design & Practices

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