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ERIC Number: EJ1015484
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1550-1175
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"I Spoke It When I Was a Kid": Practicing Critical Bicultural Pedagogy in a Fourth-Grade Classroom
Casesa, Rhianna
Schools: Studies in Education, v10 n2 p171-191 Fall 2013
By examining the potential of purposefully implemented critical bicultural pedagogy (CBP) for student empowerment, this article responds to "Culture and Power in the Classroom: Educational Foundations for the Schooling of Bicultural Students" by Antonia Darder (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2012). Using a theoretical framework based upon student voice, critical pedagogy, and multiculturalism, the article examines the role of CBP in an English-only fourth-grade classroom. The perspectives of eight students undergoing a process of bicultural identity-making in a school where bilingualism is devalued are explored. Although they had internalized the limiting social constructs of race, culture, and language ideologies, through CBP these children transformed into critical individuals able to question, provoke, and analyze the societal status quo. Students who had been socialized to identify with the dominant culture--doing everything possible to "fit in"--took strong positions as emerging bicultural agents of change. (Contains 1 footnote, 1 table and 1 figure.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Grade 4; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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