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Opening the Dialogue: Using Culture as a Tool in Teaching Young African American Children

Relates how the author, a White teacher, discovered how to teach her African American students by learning to understand their culture. Discusses how she became aware of the cultural discontinuity in her classroom, and began a dialog with African-American friends, fellow teachers, children, parents, and multicultural literature to change her style of teaching to meet her students' needs. (SR)

• Author/Creator: Diller, Debbie
• Date Published: May
• Journal/Secondary Title: Reading Teacher
• Number: 8
• Volume: 52
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: Cultural Differences
• Subject: Cultural Pluralism
• Subject: Multicultural Education

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