Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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.
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Yeah, your question is relevant to anyone who considers themselves a future english teacher. I, for one, am going to be dealing with diverse classrooms in many ways, primarily in regards to denominational difference because I want to teach in a private-Christian setting. The secondary research is directly related, if not attempting to answer pieces of your question. At the end of your entry, you said you want to not only find out if students have broken into a power discourse, but how they did it. That fills a gap that neither Gee or Delpit touched on, as much of their research was theoretical. I think you're good on secondary sources for the paper, unless you have a hard time finding a good number of primary sources. You might need to supplement with secondary sources then. I'd like to take this approach of classroom diversity into the private Christian realm and talk about ways in which a nondenominational school can coexist with students that come from a large variety of denominational practices. How does diversity affect a situation like that?
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