Including Diverse Texts in the Classroom: teacher training and practice

• Autor(a) principal: Davila, Denise
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Junqueira de Souza, Renata
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação & Realidade
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/educacaoerealidade/article/view/38166
• topic: Temas Polêmicos. Censura. Estado da Arte. Formação Docente.; Polemic Themes. Censorship. Review of Literature. Pre Service Courses.

The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it examines howDiscourses, socially accepted ways of speaking, listening, writing, and reading that illustrate individuals’ memberships in specific social groups (Gee,2008), could influence teachers’ use or censorship of polemic text in the classroom. Second, this article presents a review of the research literatureabout teachers’ inclusion of culturally diverse themes in their classrooms.For example, it describes professors’ use of children´s books about racism with new teachers. It also outlines suggestions for guiding discussions that respect students’ heritage, build critical literacy, and support culturally responsiveteaching pedagogies.