“Don’t denigrate us, especially in public. One teacher would say out loud, ‘You’re getting a D,’ or other negative things in front of other students, disrespecting them.”
An excerpt from Cushman’s “Fires in the Bathroom” Continue reading Last call
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Embracing silence
“The key to a successful MV lesson is for the teacher to withhold his or her personal values during the discussion and remain impartial. Teacher-directed discussions allow teachers to express their personal values on an issue and try to persuade or convince students of their viewpoint. A well-conducted MV lesson doesn’t provide that opportunity. When teachers refrain from providing their personal values about an issue, students begin to think about their own values and listen carefully to values that other students pose.”
An excerpt from Philip’s (2006) “Drugs that enhance Student Achievement:
Good Kids Making Bad Decisions” Continue reading Embracing silence
“Bless her heart, but…”
“[…] the pregnant teenager is seen as having overstepped the boundaries of appropriate reproductive practice. Not yet an adult and typically pregnant out-of-wedlock, she finds her body the focus of moral concern and the target of public outrage. Pillow identifies the paradox inherent in this construction—the pregnant teenager is fulfilling her ‘feminine’ responsibility by bearing children, yet in a fashion that is not deemed acceptable by the public.”
An excerpt from Proweller’s Re-Writing/-Righting Lives: Voices of Pregnant and Parenting Teenagers in an Alternative School Continue reading “Bless her heart, but…”
Circle YES or NO
“If your mind’s not there [in class], it’ll do no good to try and concentrate—write it [the note] and get back to class with the conflict off your mind; at least you know that the person will know your feelings and then you can do your work.”
An excerpt from Sadowski’s “Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education” (2008) Continue reading Circle YES or NO
“You talk… You speak the good French…”
“All Haitians speak Haitian Creole, but because of Haiti’s legacy as a French colony, French has remained an important marker of educational status among Haitians (Zéphir 2004) […] These Haitians enjoyed the prestige associated with being speakers of French, a language that invokes images of sophistication and refinement, and they relished being nicknamed ‘Frenchies’ (Woldemikael 1989; Zéphir 1995).”
An except from Doucet and Suárez-Orozco’s “Ethnic Identity and Schooling: The experiences of Haitian Immigrant Youth” Continue reading “You talk… You speak the good French…”