Voices of Diversity by Lori Langer De Ramirez
Voices of Diversity: Stories, Activities, and Resoures for the Multicultural Classroom offers engaging, first-person narratives about school experiences by students, teachers, and parents. It focuses on race and ethnicity, learning styles, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, linguistic diversity, gender and gender roles, learning abilities and special needs, and physical abilities. Questions, projects, and activities help students synthesize these issues in ways meaningful to their own classroom practice.Lori Langer de Ramirez began her career as a teacher of Spanish, French, and ESL. She is currently the chairperson of the ESL and World Language Department for Herricks Public Schools.
Langer de Ramirez is the author of Take Action: Lesson Plans for the Multicultural Classroom and Voices of Diversity: Stories, Activities and Resources for the Multicultural Classroom (Pearson), as well as several Spanish-language books and texts (Cuü¾Ž–”¼ntame - Folklore y Fü¾Œ–”¼bulas and Mi abuela ya no estü¾Œ–”¼). She has contributed to many textbooks and written numerous articles about second-language pedagogy and methodology. Her interactive Web site (www.miscositas.com) offers teachers over 40 virtual picturebooks, videos, wiki and blog links, and other curricular materials for teaching Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Italian, Spanish, and Thai.
In the past decade, Langer de Ramirez has presented over 50 workshops, staff development trainings, and addresses at local, regional, and national conferences and in schools throughout the United States (Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington DC) and abroad (Puerto Rico, Thailand, Venezuela).
She is the recipient of the Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture; several National Endowment for the Humanities grants for study in Mexico, Colombia, and Senegal; and a Fulbright Award to India and Nepal. Her areas of research and curriculum development are multicultural and diversity education, folktales in the language classroom, and technology in language teaching. She holds a master′s degree in applied linguistics and a doctorate in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780131178861 |
| ISBN 10 | 0131178865 |
| Title | Voices of Diversity |
| Author | Lori Langer De Ramirez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pearson Education Limited |
| Year published | 2005-11-29 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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