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Losing our languageSandra Stotsky

Losing our language

1999318 pages
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Losing Our Language reveals what the once benign, now politically correct ideology of multiculturalism has come to mean for elementary school reading curriculums in the 1990s. In this book, Dr. Stotsky details the changes that have been made over the past decade in cultural content and teaching strategies used for reading instruction in elementary schools. She asserts that under the guise of an overzealous, culturally diverse agenda, intellectual and literary goals are rapidly being displaced by social and political goals and by the demands of a profoundly moralizing pedagogy. Losing Our…

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2 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2002
    Encounter Books · 320 pages · 9781893554481
  • Other · English · 1999
    Free Press · 316 pages · 9780684849614
Reading (Elementary)Social aspectsEducational sociologyMulticultural educationSocial aspects of Reading (Elementary)LezenIntercultureel onderwijsAspect social