Identity Texts by Margaret Early
Effective and inspirational pedagogy has been achieved through identity texts in multilingual school contexts, engaging students around the world. This book shows how identity texts are used.The term identity texts was first used by the Canada-wide Multiliteracies Project to describe a variety of creative work by students - collaborative inquiry, literary narratives, dramatic and multimodal performances - led by classroom teachers. The identity texts produced held up a mirror to the students which reflected their identities back in a positive light.
Jim Cummins and Margaret Early describe the nature of identity texts and how they relate to broader orientations to pedagogy, and consider several pedagogical frameworks within which they have been integrated. Brief case studies follow of identity text construction by educators and students in schools in parts of North America and China, in Burkina Faso and Uganda in Africa, and in Italy, Spain and Greece. The closing chapter elaborates on the ways in which identity text construction can promote powerful forms of learning among culturally and linguistically diverse students.
Identity Texts is essential reading for everyone concerned with developing appropriate pedagogy for schools and for all who work with multilingual children.
Jim Cummins is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Canada and has spent the past 40 years researching and working with multilingual learners across the world. His controversial theoretical distinction between conversational versus academic language proficiency is a key topic in pre-service and professional development related to the education of minority group students who are learning the language of instruction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781858564784 |
| ISBN 10 | 1858564786 |
| Title | Identity Texts |
| Author | Margaret Early |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Institute of Education Press |
| Year published | 2011-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 190 |
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