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Already Reading Texts and Contexts: Multicultural Literature in a Predominantly White Rural Community

Examines how the inclusion of multicultural texts played out in one predominantly white rural community, focusing on repercussions of a key event that set off conflict in the community and describing how various interpretations of this event haped teachers' and community members' beliefs about the selection, interpretation, and teaching of multicultural literature. (SM)

• Author/Creator: Ketter, Jean, Lewis, Cynthia
• Date Published: Sum
• Journal/Secondary Title: Theory into Practice
• Number: 3
• Volume: 40
• Year: 2001

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: Childrens Literature
• Subject: Cultural Awareness
• Subject: Cultural Influences
• Subject: Discussion Groups
• Subject: Diversity (Student)
• Subject: Elementary Secondary Education
• Subject: Racial Attitudes
• Subject: Reading Instruction
• Subject: Rural Areas
• Subject: Rural Schools
• Subject: Teacher Attitudes

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