LING 4P10 Chapter Notes - Chapter .: Firm Foundation, Identity Negotiation, Critical Inquiry
18 Mar 2016
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Cummins 2009: pedagogies of choice: challenging coercive relaions of power in classrooms and communiies. Educators have individual and collecive choices in how they negoiate ideniies with students and communiies, and these choices are expressed in how they: In what they communicate to students regarding home lang and culture. Ariculaion of choices involves re-examining assumpions about curriculum, assessment and instrucion that constrict idenity opions for culturally diverse students. -literacy refers only to reading and wriing in the dominant lang. -cultural knowledge and l1 abiliies that bilingual students bring to school have litle instrucional relevance. -culturally diverse parents don t have lang skills to contribute to their kids literacy development. Need to acknowledge role of societal power relaions in determining academic achievement, and build school-based language policies on a irm foundaion of what the empirical research says about the inluence of students l1 and l2 literacy development.
