Honoring Identities: Creating Culturally Responsive Learning Communities

Donna L. Miller

doi:10.5771/9781475857894

Summary

Honoring Identities argues that creating culturally responsive learning communities is a process which begins with building community, cultivating certain student and teacher dispositions, nurturing social justice, leveraging the power of talk and dialogic exchange, using Cultural Identity Literature (CIL) to build bridges and to normalize difference, and fostering a culture of civil discourse. Honoring Identities provides both theory and practice to advance the important mission of building culturally responsive mindsets and to ensure that all students feel like they have a place at the learning table. CIL reflects and honors the lives of all young people, and GREEN APPLE questions focus their reading on key facets of identity, multiplying the effectiveness of the reading experience. GREEN APPLE questions also provide a lens for anyone else wishing to select CIL. The questions not only illuminate different perspectives of a text but make readers aware that individual experiences color the reading of a text.

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright Year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-5787-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-5789-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 164
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Ch01. Cultural Identity No access Pages 7 - 14
Ch02. Building Community and Connections No access Pages 15 - 34
Ch03. Teacher and Student Dispositions No access Pages 35 - 48
Ch04. Nurturing Social Justice No access Pages 49 - 74
Ch05. The Power of Talk and Dialogic Exchange No access Pages 75 - 92
Ch06. Reading Cultural Identity Literature No access Pages 93 - 122
Ch07. Pause and Ponder Moments No access Pages 123 - 140
Appendix. Annotated List of Cultural Identity Literature No access Pages 141 - 152
References No access Pages 153 - 158
Index No access Pages 159 - 162
About the Author No access Pages 163 - 164