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The voices of teachers, parents, and students create a compelling ethnographic study that examines the debate between traditional and progressive pedagogies in literacy education and the mismatch of cross-cultural discourses between mainstream schools and Asian families. This book focuses on a Vancouver suburb where the Chinese population has surpassed the white community numerically and socioeconomically, but not politically, and where the author uncovers disturbing cultural conflicts, educational dissensions, and "silent" power struggles between school and home. What Guofang Li reveals illustrates the challenges of teaching and learning in an increasingly complex educational landscape in which literacy, culture, race, and social class intertwine. Advocating for a greater cultural understanding of minority beliefs in literacy education and a more critical examination of mainstream instructional practices, Li offers a new theoretical framework and critical recommendations for teachers, schools, and parents.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Culturally Contested Pedagogy
• Subtitle: Battles of Literacy and Schooling Between Mainstream Teachers and Asian Immigrant Parents
• Author: Guofang Li
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 281
• EAN: 9780791465936
• ID: 09387331
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 517 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. November 2005

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