Inside City Schools: Investigating Literacy in Multicultural Classrooms

Editor(s): Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Elizabeth Radin Simons, Julie Shalhope Kalnin, Alex Casareno

This is one of the first books to synthesize and coordinate the work of a national team of teacher researchers who, together, address the difficult issues of race and ethnicity in the classroom. With courage and honesty, experienced English and social studies teachers from four multicultural settings—Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco—grapple with the issues of how best to meet the literacy learning needs of an increasingly diverse school population. They deal with a variety of real issues of teaching within a culturally responsive framework, such as:

confronting issues of race and ethnicity in literature, within classrooms and in a larger community
helping students deal with neighborhood violence and conditions of poverty
designing a multicultural curriculum
creating an emotionally safe classroom
fostering peer relations among faculty members

267pp. 1999. NCTE and Teachers College Press. Grades 8–12. ISBN 0-8077-3840-9.
No. 23465

ISBN: 0-8077-3840-9

Grade Level(s): Middle, Secondary