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BL
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| Record Number
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701648
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b523837
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| Main Entry
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Fecho, Bob
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| Title & Author
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"Is this English?" : : race, language, and culture in the classroom /\ Bob Fecho ; foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Teachers College Press,, ©2004
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| Series Statement
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The practitioner inquiry series
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| Page. NO
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xii, 173 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0807744077
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: 0807744085
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: 9780807744079
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: 9780807744086
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-163) and index
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| Contents
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A sense of beginning; a beginning of sense -- Hopelessness and possibility -- Two's company; three's a small learning community -- Some of my best friends are theorists -- Yo, wazzup? -- Why are you doing this? -- Learning as Aaron (with Aaron Green) -- Refusing to go along with the joke -- In search of wise beauty and beautiful wisdom
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| Abstract
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Through his journey, the author presents a method of "critical inquiry" that allows students and teachers to take intellectual and social risks in the classroom to make meaning together, and, ultimately, to transform literacy education
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| Subject
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African American high school students-- Pennsylvania-- Philadelphia
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English language-- Study and teaching (Secondary)-- Pennsylvania-- History
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High school teaching-- Pennsylvania-- Philadelphia
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Multicultural education-- Pennsylvania-- Philadelphia
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| Dewey Classification
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373.1102
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| LC Classification
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LB1607.52.P4F43 2004
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