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Children's Friendships In Culturally Diverse Classrooms »

Authors: James G. Deegan, G. Deegan James
ISBN-13: 9780750702676, ISBN-10: 0750702672
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: James G. Deegan

Book Synopsis

Using material from American, Australian and British empirical studies, this book examines children's interests, needs, assets and capacities in multicultural classrooms and provides international comparisons on what it is like to "be" and "have" friends. The book also explores children's developing ideas of friendships and how they are linked to peer cultures And Looks Into How Such Friendships Can Motivate Children's Socializing in today's schools.

	Lists of Figures and Tables
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: The Promise of Children's Friendships in Culturally Diverse Classrooms	1
2	Theoretical Foundations of Children's Friendships in Culturally Diverse Classrooms	9
3	Roots and Branches of Research on Children's Friendships in Culturally Diverse Classrooms	20
4	Children's Friendships in a Fifth-grade Culturally Diverse Classroom in Atlanta, Georgia	39
5	The Friendly Cultural Stranger as Self-critical Reflexive Narrator	52
6	An Inquiry Approach for Investigating Children's Friendships with Student Teachers in a School-University Partnership	62
7	Two Student Teachers' Beginning Professional Stories of Studying Children's Friendships	71
8	Frontiers and Futures: Linking Theory, Research and Practice and the Challenge of Educational Reform	82
	References	91
	Index	103