Having My Say

My secondary sources that I am using for my research into managing language and identity in a diverse classroom present numerous opinions and topics. Gee for example, talks about primary discourses and about the factors that inhibit students from learning the dominant discourse if it differs from their primary one. Delpit responds to Gee, remarking about how students can learn the dominant discourse, and Fecho gives insight into how we can go about helping students to learn that dominant discourse through their own investigations into language. They all have some opinion or possible solutions about language and discourse impact certain students which will all be important when working with a diverse classroom. I want to know about some concrete examples of how students have broken into the dominant discourse and how they went about doing so, not merely whether or not they can. Hopefully through interviews with teachers and students about this topic I might find out.