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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ804611
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Jul
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
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Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade Classroom
Sassi, Kelly; Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth
English Journal, v97 n6 p25-31 Jul 2008
Kelly Sassi and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas describe their struggles and eventual success with students in constructing a "counternarrative to colormuteness and colorblindness"--the self-imposed student segregation and silencing of voice. Because of discussions during a Native American unit and student participation in a classroom intervention activity, interpersonal dynamics openly shifted for the better. (Contains 1 figure and 2 notes.)
Descriptors: Student Participation, Interpersonal Relationship, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Racial Relations, Classroom Desegregation, Grade 9, Heterogeneous Grouping, Intervention, Teaching Experience, Language Arts
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Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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