The Skin That We Speak

Download or Read eBook The Skin That We Speak PDF written by Lisa Delpit and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Skin That We Speak
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Publisher : New Press/ORIM
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781595585844
ISBN-13 : 1595585842
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Book Synopsis The Skin That We Speak by : Lisa Delpit

Book excerpt: “Lucid, accessible” research on classroom language bias for educators and “parents concerned about questions of power and control in public schools” (Publishers Weekly). In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy take a critical look at the issues of language and dialect in the education system. The Skin That We Speak moves beyond the highly charged war of idioms to present teachers and parents with a thoughtful exploration of the varieties of English spoken today. At a time when children who don’t speak formal English are written off in our schools, 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 this all-important aspect of education. Including groundbreaking work by Herbert Kohl, Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, and Victoria Purcell-Gates, as well as classic texts by Geneva Smitherman and Asa Hilliard, this volume of writing is what Black Issues Book Review calls “an essential text.” “The book is aimed at helping educators learn to make use of cultural differences apparent in language to educate children, but its content guarantees broader appeal.” —Booklist “An honest, much-needed look at one of the most crucial issues in education today.” —Jackson Advocate


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