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Article: Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write, and Reason.(Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Teacher Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Stotsky, Sandra. (1999). Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write, and Reason. (316 pages). New York: Free Press.
Educators generally consider discussions of race and racism as volatile topics within the curriculum for K-12 schools and teacher education and tend to handle these multicultural topics antiseptically or simply avoid them. Teacher educators in preservice and in-service settings know that a hornets' nest of privilege may be stirred up if racism is analyzed to its core. Inevitably, teachers in these teaching and learning situations find themselves having to question their own ...